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Postal (2008)

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Reviews Counted:38

Fresh:3

Rotten:35

Average Rating:3/10

Consensus: An attempt at political satire that lacks any wit or relevance, Postal is nonetheless one of Uwe Boll's more successful films -- for what it's worth.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for extremely crude humor throughout, including strong sexuality, graphic nudity, violence, and for pervasive language and some drug use.

Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 23, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: A religious charlatan (Foley), his mild mannered nephew (Ward) and a gang of bosomy commandos face off against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in an epic battle that will determine the fate of the... A religious charlatan (Foley), his mild mannered nephew (Ward) and a gang of bosomy commandos face off against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in an epic battle that will determine the fate of the world in POSTAL, the latest film from controversial director Uwe Boll (“BloodRayne”). Boll roasts an entire herd of sacred cows and smashes taboos to smithereens in this over-the-top and hilariously subversive critique of modern day America. Inspired by the notorious videogame of the same name, POSTAL is a jaw-droppingly original spoof of contemporary culture and an equal opportunity offender, lampooning religious extremists, minorities, bureaucrats, immigrants, cops, women, the Holocaust, gun nuts and more with evenhanded abandon. The outrageous political and social satire stars Zack Ward (“Transformers”), Dave Foley (“News Radio”), J.K. Simmons the (“Spiderman”) trilogy, Jackie Tohn (“On the Lot”), Larry Thomas, the Soup Nazi from (“Seinfeld”), Erick Avari (“Mr. Deeds”) and Verne Troyer (“Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me”). The film is produced by Boll, Dan Clarke and Shawn Williamson. --© Event Film [More]

Starring: Verne Troyer, Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola

Starring: Verne Troyer, Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Jackie Tohn, J.K. Simmons, Larry Thomas, David Huddleston

Director: Uwe Boll

Director: Uwe Boll
Screenwriter: Uwe Boll
Producer: Uwe Boll, Daniel Clarke, Shawn Williamson
Composer: Jessica De Rooij
Studio: Event Film

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Convinced that Arab terrorists are inherently hilarious, and that shooting fish in the leaky barrel of American pop culture takes marksmanship, Boll is a boor, and a symptom of something sad and dehumanizing.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
10/18/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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The end result is a film that feels as though it's been conceived and executed by a third grader...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
10/06/08
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Boll mistakes shock for satire and crudity for cleverness in this desperately unfunny, hopelessly clueless catalogue of the ills of America... that ends up rejoicing in what it believes it is sending up.

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
08/26/08
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

The second half of the movie is a mess with only light humor and some audacious bits to liven up the mood.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/12/08
Chris Carle
Chris Carle
IGN Movies

I guess you could call it a "satire," but it doesn't particularly care to take the time or energy to spin the satire in any meaningful way; it merely thunders over all its ideas like a rabid elephant.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
06/05/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

If this movie had been made by an unknown young director, a lot of critics would still be panning the movie for its inconsistencies -- but many others would be praising his courage.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment 1 Comment
05/30/08
Peter Hartlaub
Peter Hartlaub
San Francisco Chronicle
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Boll's self-inflicted dose of Schadenfreude is the only sure shot in this miserable misfire of a satire, which aims for "campy," but hits "crappy" instead.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/30/08
Chad Greene
Chad Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

Is it funny? Not really, but it has isolated flashes of inspiration. Elsewhere, the film is a jumbled, needlessly violent mess, sloppily edited and feckless in its attempts at political satire.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
05/29/08
Rossiter Drake
Rossiter Drake
San Francisco Examiner

Almost worth watching because it's so unbelievably abysmal that you can't believe any filmmaker, let alone one as hated as Dr. Boll, would deliberately make light of such subjects in order to shock and offend.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
05/23/08
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Fearlessness isn't inherently funny: Postal's touches of wit are lost in the flying body parts, gross-out gags, and the full frontal spectacle of Foley's no-longer-private parts.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/23/08
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Postal strikes me as marginally superior to Morgan Spurlock's merely boneheaded Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? But that's like saying Moe is smarter than Curly.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 1 Comment
05/23/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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It's hard to imagine a worse movie will come out this year, and yet Boll's growing notoriety has already earned the trailer millions of hits on YouTube. Ed Wood never had it so good.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/23/08
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
05/23/08
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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In short, we have a trainwreck of a comedy that goes on far longer than you'd care to watch an actual trainwreck, trying too hard to be offensive the entire time and delivering its jokes with the timing of a 2-year-old with a mixing spoon and a soup-pot.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
05/23/08
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max, Postal explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/23/08
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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This reviewer is not easy to offend, but is very easy to bore. And I was bored out of my tree for most of Boll's lamely conceived, cliché-ridden debacle.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
05/23/08
Michael Harris
Michael Harris
Globe and Mail
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Indeed, Postal is THAT kind of movie, one that substitutes rancor for real wit, that utilizes splatter when a few script rewrites would have worked much better.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/23/08
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

What's wrong with Postal can be summed up pretty easily - it's a comedy that's never once funny.

Full Review Source: The Deadbolt | comment Comment
05/23/08
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
The Deadbolt

Twice as violent and half as funny as anything resembling a good movie, it's still a hell of a ride

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment Comment
05/23/08
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Imagine what "Catch-22" might have been like if it had been written by that creepy grade-school classmate of yours who was always talking about how cool it would be to stick a cherry bomb under that dead squirrel he found on the side of the road

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
05/22/08
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com
 
 
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