Postal (film)

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Movie
German title Postal
Original title Postal
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Country of production USA , Canada , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Uwe Boll
script Uwe Boll
production Uwe Boll
Dan Clarke
Shawn Williamson
music Jessica de Rooij
camera Mathias Neumann
cut Julian Clarke
occupation

Postal is a video game adaptation of the German- indexed computer game series Postal from 2007. Director Uwe Boll shot the film in Cloverdale , British Columbia, Canada . On July 22, 2007 the film premiered at the Fantasia Festival in Montréal . The film was released in Germany on October 18, 2007, and one day later in Austria.

action

The unemployed, impoverished dude lives with his overweight and unfaithful wife Bitch in a small, run-down trailer park in the small town of Paradise in the US state of Arizona . To escape his unfortunate misery and finally to improve his financial situation, he teams up with his uncle Dave, who is the head of an apocalyptic sect . He intends to steal the coveted Krotchy dolls before they are sold for the first time, as they have risen sharply in value due to a shipwreck.

In a grocery store in Paradise, however, an Afghan Taliban terrorist faction is also hiding. They have smuggled capsules with bird flu pathogens into the USA in their dolls and now want to distribute them in order to destroy the USA.

The sect and the Taliban broke into the "Little Germany" amusement park , in which said dolls are located. The confrontation between the Taliban fighters, the park security guards, the local police and the cult members turns into a bloody shootout, in the course of which numerous children are killed.

The dolls are brought by the dude to the sect's premises in a delivery truck, but the Taliban group is already there too. Richard, the administrator of the sect, reads "between the lines" of Uncle Dave's fictitious "Bible" and shoots Uncle Dave. Richard tries to get the dolls in order to destroy not only the USA but the whole world.

When the dude prepares to blow up the delivery truck right next to his own trailer, a final battle ensues between him and the terrorists, the sect instigated by Richard and the other residents of the trailer park. Together with the coffee house operator Faith, whom he met earlier, the dude takes out the attackers, and both of them drive out of town with Dude's dog in a shot-down police car.

Osama had already fled from the fighting and is walking hand in hand with "Georgie" (Bush) towards the horizon, while nuclear missiles from a nuclear war between the USA and China strike around her.

Reviews

The film received disastrous reviews in the USA: On Rotten Tomatoes , the film is rated with only 7% based on collected reviews. In summary it says:

"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."

“An attempt at political satire without any joke or relevance. Postal is still one of Boll's more successful films - whatever it may be good for. "

On F.LM , Stefan Höltgen calls the film an "insult to the viewer who has to watch for 90 minutes as a less gifted filmmaker tries to acknowledge the narcissistic insults inflicted on him". For Telepolis , Höltgen follows up and describes Postal as an “aesthetic catastrophe” and a “ right-wing populist Boll work”.

In the Blickpunkt: Film it says: "A little more radical satire and a little less trash would have done the film good."

André Gabriel from Moviereporter.net rated the film with 3 out of 6 possible points and explained: “Anyone who can" make friends "with the radicalism and does not react completely horrified to what Uwe Boll [...] gives the viewer in Postal to see in phases, If you can really understand the scenes and not only stare at the surface in amazement, you can have fun with Postal and then even think about it. "

The lexicon of the international film judges: “Crazy trash satire, which pokes at political and ideological zealots in a crude number revue. Some details are pointed and funny, but overall the film is designed much too amateurish, trivial and proletarian. "

Awards

Trivia

  • During the sales opening (in the film) of the Krotchy dolls in the “Little Germany” amusement park, there is a fight between the film's producer, Uwe Boll , who satirizes himself, and Vincent Desiderio , who developed the game. Both are killed in the subsequent shooting. The answer in the game Postal III is a "Uwe Boll" figure, but not spoken by himself.
  • Many elements from the game also appear in the film, such as the famous "cat silencer ".
  • Osama bin Laden only appears in one secret level in the game, but quite obviously in the film.
  • The Swiss metal band Secondhand Child took direct inspiration from the film for their song Going Postal . After Uwe Boll heard the song, he gave the band permission to create a video clip for the song from film scenes. The video clip can also be seen in the extras on the German DVD and Blu-ray of Postal's Director's Cut.

Planned continuation

On August 28, 2013, Uwe Boll announced on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com that he wanted to produce a sequel with Postal 2 . However, the project was canceled again on October 5, 2013 due to a lack of prospects of success.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Postal . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 733 V / DVD / UMD).
  2. ^ Rotten Tomatoes: Postal
  3. ↑ F.LM: Critique of Postal ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.f-lm.de
  4. ↑ Telepolis: So friends, nothing matters here
  5. ↑ Kino.de: Press comments Postal
  6. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
  7. ↑ Announcement on Kickstarter.com , accessed May 30, 2014