Is he trying to get "Artsy" on us now? And what the hell is Dave Foley doing in this?
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/23...tml?ref=movies
May 23, 2008
Anarchy With a Short Attention Span
By NATHAN LEE
Published: May 23, 2008
Infantile, irreverent and boorish to the max,
“Postal” explodes with bad attitude and lousy filmmaking. Opening with the sine qua non of tasteless 9/11 gags and closing with a shot of President Bush (Brent Mendenhall) skipping through a field of mushroom clouds hand in hand with
“Sammy,” a k a
Osama bin Laden (Larry Thomas), this idiot burlesque of American society manages to be both clueless and fearless.
Jokes about
Oprah’s diet and indecisive Starbucks customers? Tired. A celebrity midget (Verne Troyer) being gang-raped by monkeys to advance the apocalyptic agenda of the orgiastic hippie cult Denomination of Organic Monotheism? Timeless!
With the unflappable German troublemaker Uwe Boll as producer, director and co-writer, the film is loosely based on a controversial video game about a trailer park resident (Zach Ward) going “postal” in the small town of Paradise, Ariz. — and is strictly for fans of short-attention-span anarchy and desultory ultraviolence.
Were Mr. Boll less technically inept — if nothing else, his movie is a master class in botched editing — he might have been on to something as viciously cathartic as
“Team America: World Police.” As it stands (barely, flatulently, clutching a humongous firearm), “Postal” is a gimpy half-step forward for the man popularly known as “the worst filmmaker in the world.”
“Postal” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for pervasive violence, language, nudity and ineptitude.
POSTAL
Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
Directed by Uwe Boll; written by Mr. Boll and Bryan C. Knight, inspired by the video game; director of photography, Mathias Neumann; edited by Julian Clarke; production designer, Tink; produced by Mr. Boll, Shawn Williamson and Dan Clarke; released by Event Film. At the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes.
WITH: Zach Ward (Dude),
Dave Foley (Uncle Dave), Jackie Tohn (Faith), Larry Thomas (
Osama bin Laden), Erick Avari (Habib), Brent Mendenhall (
George W. Bush) and Verne Troyer (himself).