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Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Michael Benyaer, Jackie Tohn ... see more see more... , J.K. Simmons , Ralf Moeller , Verne Troyer , Chris Spencer , Larry Thomas , Vince Desiderio , Michael Paré , Jodie Stewart , David Huddleston , Seymour Cassel , Erick Avari , Lonelle New , Holly Eglington , Lucie Guest , Uwe Boll , Brent Mendenhall

Notorious, critic-boxing director Uwe Boll takes the helm for this adaptation of the controversial video game that ignited controversy across the globe and is actually illegal to own in Australia and ... read more read more...New Zealand. Dude (Zack Ward) is an unemployed slacker currently subsisting on Social Security until he lands his next job. Dude's uncle Dave (Dave Foley) is a cult leader currently in dire financial straits. When Uncle Dave hatches a plan to rip off a local amusement park, Dude sees the heist as the perfect opportunity to make a little extra cash. Unfortunately for Dude and Uncle Dave, the Taliban are all set to execute the exact same heist. Erick Avari, Seymour Cassel, Verne Troyer, Larry Thomas, and J.K. Simmons star in a deliberately over-the-top action comedy that is sure to garner as much controversy as the video game that inspired it. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Uwe Boll

Release Date: August 11, 2007

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2008

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  • October 17, 2008
    On one hand Uwe Boll continues to make crap. On another hand this movie was so bad I laughed at times just for the sheer stupidity.
  • February 9, 2012
    I can imagine this is a highly controversial film in the US haha its laden with very dark black humour and is possibly more filled with satire than Robocop, at least satire thats strong for this time. Black comedy is an understatement, this is down right pitch and pretty strange ... read moretoo.

    Much like a real computer game or the actual game (which I have never played by the way) there isn't really any story for this film, just a couple of guys who need to steal a ton of cuddly dolls to make money, one to escape his shit hometown the other to pay of a huge tax bill. At the same time the Taliban wants the dolls too, and of course to blow up the western world. Its very weird and doesn't make any sense really, its just a long gun battle with many many deaths and typical cliched characters, but that doesn't mean this is a bad film.

    The little sequences where Bin Laden chats with Bush are actually very good and quite genius :)
    Boll has strong opinions here ;) much like a Michael Moore film there are so many references like this strewn throughout and the ending pretty much sums up the whole feel of the film and the real world to a degree...scary :( Whats more scary is the beginning of the film with a quite close to the bone sequence of an airliner being flown into a skyscraper hmmm :(
    The cast are all unknown virtually and do an OK job, the main lead Ward is actually pretty good as a everyday guy who slowly becomes a gun totting 'Mad Max' style vigilante. There are plenty of sexy girls, Boll makes a cameo defending his films as himself, but ends up getting shot in the nuts haha numerous bizarre deaths with little or no consequences, and that includes babies and kids getting blown away or run over, cops with no morales etc...its just your everyday GTA style computer game on the big screen.

    In that aspect Boll has made a very good film which could be the closest thing to a perfect computer game adaptation, its close to source material, its clearly made for the right age group and hasn't been watered down and it does actually look like a free roaming GTA style game.
    The fact that it doesn't really make any sense and has no meaning doesn't really matter...its a film based on a violent computer game which has no real point to it accept to run around and kill people.
    Depends how you look at it.
    Very clever in places with strong yet clearly comicbook/computer game style violence and probably Bolls finest hour so far.
  • June 10, 2010
    Postal is a better film by director Uwe Boll. Postal is based on the controversial video game of the same name, and the film is politically incorrect. The film is pretty funny and does a good job at entertaining. Uwe Boll manages to direct a competent film, and it's not dreadful ... read morelike Alone In The Dark, Bloodrayne, House Of The Dead and In The Name Of The King. A decent enough comedy with politically incorrect laughs to be had, Postal is a live action version of South Park.
  • February 7, 2010
    Congratulations Toilet Boll! Postal absolutely sucks! This is a shocker. Oh wait, no it isn't.

    This film may only be loosely based on the video game by the same name, but this monstrosity is so crappy that it still gives the game a bad name. This movie is not

    ... read morefunny, not entertaining, and much too long. Seriously, the 1 hour 40 minutes feels like an eternity.

    The movie is supposed to be wacky and over the top, but this film still goes nowhere. Boll's attempt at humor is executed poorly in a story with plot holes, which shouldn't matter, but they do anyway. Boll just continues to find ways to disappoint.

    Zack Ward is unimpressive, Dave Foley has full frontal nudity, and J.K. Simmons lowers his reputation just by taking a role in this abomination. At least there are a handful of scantily clad women to look at. Their acting, on the other hand, is also "scantily clad." To top it all off, Toilet Boll actually appears as himself. As if this movie isn't bad enough, but now his face appears on the screen and his voice is heard.

    Postal is a picture that fails at every turn. Avoid it at all costs and move on.

  • January 15, 2010
    Not bad and actually funny at some points. Plenty of hot chicks barely dressed, plus a full frontal from Dave Foley. Has next to nothing to do with the game other than dictating props and settings used and some one-liners, but then again what the hell is the game about other than... read more outrageous setting and props? Shows that Boll can make fun of himself. Worth a watch if you're looking for faux-edgy that is marginally better than mainstream comedy releases.
  • April 7, 2009
    Uwe Boll must be stopped
  • November 10, 2008
    Obviously, to say this is the best Uwe Boll film I've seen is faint praise. The thing is, it's still not very good. Boll's idea of comedy is very broad and not really executed in a way that is actually funny. The "cutting edge" sociopolitical humor could have been written by a... read more ten year old. The saving grace is that the whole thing is like watching a train wreck.

    Also, a must if you've ever wanted long, loving shots of full frontal Dave Foley.
  • September 27, 2008
    Looks like Boll can add comedy to genres he isn't any good at.
    Sure it has a few chuckles but then the expression about monkeys and typewriters comes to mind.
  • September 14, 2008
    I'm not gonna lie, I was thoroughly entertained.
  • September 13, 2008
    A Uwe Boll film that isn't THAT bad? "Madness" you may think but it's actually true. Who would have believed it? So why isn't it that bad? Well first of all due to the recent decline in big comedies such as Love Guru, Meet Dave, Meet the Spartans etc. even Schindler's List seems ... read morefunny at this point. Next the whole chaotic comedic nature of the film serves Boll a lot better than Horror or Action. He can be as stupid and nonsensical as he likes here. Boll also makes the genius step of lampooning himself. If you hate Boll's films you must see this just for his cameo segment where he claims he funds his movies with Nazi gold, declares that he is turned on by little children, gets into a fist fight with the creator of the Postal video game and then gets shot in the balls. Yes most of the humour comes from how outrageous the film can be, which does mean however when certain jokes do miss they simply become offensive. Still it's sadistically nice to see a mass shoot out where children are not immune to graphic gun shots. The film also has impressive production values so it looks a million times better than those shit awful spoof movies of late, not to mention some well cast comedic performances. Overall then this is a fair comedy, an okay film, but coming from Boll it's almost something of a masterpiece.

Critic Reviews


John Anderson
October 18, 2008
John Anderson, Newsday

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 dehum... Full Review

Peter Hartlaub
May 30, 2008
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

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

Kyle Smith
May 23, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post

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

Elizabeth Weitzman
May 23, 2008
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

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

Mark Olsen
May 23, 2008
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point. Full Review

Nathan Lee
May 23, 2008
Nathan Lee, New York Times

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

Michael Harris
May 23, 2008
Michael Harris, Globe and Mail

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

Christy Lemire
May 22, 2008
Christy Lemire, Associated Press

How does Uwe Boll keep getting work? Seriously, this is not a rhetorical question -- someone, somewhere surely must know the answer. Full Review

Aaron Hillis
May 21, 2008
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

This movie's about as dangerous (or as funny) as a mouthy, caffeinated teen punk from the suburbs who just saw his first s***-flinging GG Allin performance on YouTube. Full Review

Dennis Harvey
August 15, 2007
Dennis Harvey, Variety

Boll does mean to provoke, but to pull off a satirical critique of the volatile subjects here would require sharper wit than he and co-scenarist Bryan C. Knight generally provide. Full Review

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