SeriouslyMike
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In the beginning, there was a screenplay. A screenplay in which Agent 47 gets hired to assassinate a leading presidential candidate in Russia and then is hunted by Spetsnaz to eliminate all traces of the political intrigue. Suffice to say, it was a cool thing to read.
But then, "genius" producers from 20th Century Fox jump in and screw things up. As far as the visual side goes, it's not bad and Timothy Olyphant is pretty competent in his role, but the screenplay I mentioned was utterly BUTCHERED. To make things worse, a couple of good scenes were re-shot as annoying, pointless waste of film tape, the storyline was mangled to be barely understandable and to top it all off, someone hammered footage from "Dark Angel" in to confuse viewers even further. Traces of the original screenplay can be found, with changed locales and characters, but they're irreversibly damaged by the unacceptable changes forced by the producers.
The worst thing: there is no "director's cut" version. If there was one, it would be most probably better than what we got. Why, 20th Century Fox, WHY?!
But then, "genius" producers from 20th Century Fox jump in and screw things up. As far as the visual side goes, it's not bad and Timothy Olyphant is pretty competent in his role, but the screenplay I mentioned was utterly BUTCHERED. To make things worse, a couple of good scenes were re-shot as annoying, pointless waste of film tape, the storyline was mangled to be barely understandable and to top it all off, someone hammered footage from "Dark Angel" in to confuse viewers even further. Traces of the original screenplay can be found, with changed locales and characters, but they're irreversibly damaged by the unacceptable changes forced by the producers.
The worst thing: there is no "director's cut" version. If there was one, it would be most probably better than what we got. Why, 20th Century Fox, WHY?!
As someone say, Uwe Boll is deluded. What happens when a deluded man makes a film about deluded people living in a deluded world? He goes Postal - mercilessly running over the paranoia, desensitization and absurdity of today. Of course, he does it in that specific German way - blunt, gross and sometimes disturbing, but the outcome is actually funny... Well, sometimes.
My previous experience with Boll's "hits" made me turn the TV off after hearing the first dialogue lines - but "Postal" was handled by a different writer, which makes it at least watchable. There are some overlong sequences, like Dude's speech during the trailer park shootout, but everything is pretty much coherent. As for the cinematography, there's one really good shot (inside the corporation building) among the rest of camera-work being only adequate. Acting is okay'ish, but don't expect much - just focus on the girls. ;) Overall - it can't be called "good", but if you're interested in B-movies, take a look. Uwe Boll did it - once in his whole career up to this point. Maybe he should really stay in comedy genre?
My previous experience with Boll's "hits" made me turn the TV off after hearing the first dialogue lines - but "Postal" was handled by a different writer, which makes it at least watchable. There are some overlong sequences, like Dude's speech during the trailer park shootout, but everything is pretty much coherent. As for the cinematography, there's one really good shot (inside the corporation building) among the rest of camera-work being only adequate. Acting is okay'ish, but don't expect much - just focus on the girls. ;) Overall - it can't be called "good", but if you're interested in B-movies, take a look. Uwe Boll did it - once in his whole career up to this point. Maybe he should really stay in comedy genre?