I certainly didn’t see this coming! Wired’s Chris Kohler has a blog up describing how bad the Postal movie is, and I must say I’m shocked and amazed.
Boll seems out to shock his audience into stunned disbelief rather than actually entertain them. Early in the movie, we get a long, leisurely shot of a fully nude Foley scratching his reproductive organs. I don’t want to sound like I personally was offended or shocked by anything. In fact, the only time I laughed was during the movie’s opening sequence, a comedy skit in the cockpit of one of the September 11 airplanes (they’re fighting over the number of virgins they get in Paradise). It was legitimately well-paced and funny. But it was followed by 90 minutes of flat jokes.
The real Postal games, mind you, have precious little story to them anyway, so Boll probably just had to make it up as he went along. Talk about bad subject matter.
Still, everyone should know that his movies are just an elaborate way for German investors to defer tax payments. Uwe Boll: good businessman, horrible director.
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