Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
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.
Uwe Boll's Postal is a deliberately transgressive, shock-value-driven adaptation of the controversial video game, featuring intentionally offensive humor targeting politicians, religion, and 9/11. The novelty earns a modest bump for its sheer audacity and willingness to offend everyone equally, including a cameo by Boll himself getting shot. However, the plot is incoherent and episodic rather than structured, the acting ranges from campy to genuinely poor, the cinematography is functional at best with Boll's typically flat visual style, and the ending is a nihilistic nuclear joke that feels more lazy than subversive. It's a curio for fans of extreme bad-taste comedy but fails on most conventional filmmaking metrics.