Amazingly, Uwe Boll made a good movie here.
Postal is possibly the funniest, most politically incorrect movie since South Park. If you are at all easy to offend, it will offend you. But if you have a thick skin, you'll laugh your hindquarters off. While Boll seems to be inept at anything resembling a serious movie, he has a gift for over-the-top comedy.
How over the top is it? A visit to the welfare office results in a shoot out while a bored case worker sits behind bulletproof glass, and the hero (having not yet gone postal) crawls from body to body trying to get a better ticket. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban show up in a little, terrible town named Paradise, and at one point in celebration shoot off the roof of their car with AK-47s...while they're in it. And this is the first movie to actually make a suicide bomber FUNNY. I won't even mention the improvised silencer, save to say that it had us laughing uncontrollably for at least two minutes straight.
That being said, there are a couple of gross-out jokes that fall flat. A frontal nude scene with Dave Foley fails to shock, and just comes out as uncomfortable. And, the postal dude's morbidly obese wife really should have had less screen time. But, most of the jokes work, and work well.
Uwe Boll made a really good movie - who'd have thunk it?
Postal is possibly the funniest, most politically incorrect movie since South Park. If you are at all easy to offend, it will offend you. But if you have a thick skin, you'll laugh your hindquarters off. While Boll seems to be inept at anything resembling a serious movie, he has a gift for over-the-top comedy.
How over the top is it? A visit to the welfare office results in a shoot out while a bored case worker sits behind bulletproof glass, and the hero (having not yet gone postal) crawls from body to body trying to get a better ticket. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban show up in a little, terrible town named Paradise, and at one point in celebration shoot off the roof of their car with AK-47s...while they're in it. And this is the first movie to actually make a suicide bomber FUNNY. I won't even mention the improvised silencer, save to say that it had us laughing uncontrollably for at least two minutes straight.
That being said, there are a couple of gross-out jokes that fall flat. A frontal nude scene with Dave Foley fails to shock, and just comes out as uncomfortable. And, the postal dude's morbidly obese wife really should have had less screen time. But, most of the jokes work, and work well.
Uwe Boll made a really good movie - who'd have thunk it?