Postal (2007)
Directed by Uwe Boll
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are planning the same heist as well. Chaos ensues, and now the Postal Dude must not only take on terrorists but also political figures.
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What critics compared Postal to
The film reminded me of nothing less of John Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972), which I found nauseating the first and only time I tried to watch it.
Scenes in which Blut’s team of assassins empty clips into a morbidly obese man in America, complete with bullets going through large soda cups and bags of cheese curls, wouldn’t feel out of place in Postal or Rampage , Jayson Rothwell’s screenplay burning with barely concealed contempt for everyone save for stoic dudes with eyepatches and mad fight skills.
For a moment, I was tempted to compare the results more to something like the recent Uwe Boll abomination “Postal” but while the film doesn’t quite sink to those unspeakable depths, the artistic gulf between the two is not as wide as one might hope--at least Boll’s film opened with a scene (two of the 9/11 terrorists are flying towards the World Trade Center when they discover that the number of virgins promised to them in the afterlife has changed drastically from the original estimates) that had a comedic premise that I could understand and recognize, even though it wasn’t actually funny by even the loosest dictionary definition of the word.