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.
Postal is largely just a byproduct of Boll's self-promotion, rendering the film itself, in essence, beside the point.
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2008
rotten:
It's hard to imagine a worse movie will come out this year, and yet Boll's growing notoriety has already earned the trailer millions of hits on YouTube. Ed Wood never had it so good.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2008
rotten:
Postal strikes me as marginally superior to Morgan Spurlock's merely boneheaded Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? But that's like saying Moe is smarter than Curly.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
23 May 2008
rotten:
If this movie had been made by an unknown young director, a lot of critics would still be panning the movie for its inconsistencies -- but many others would be praising his courage.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 May 2008
rotten:
Convinced that Arab terrorists are inherently hilarious, and that shooting fish in the leaky barrel of American pop culture takes marksmanship, Boll is a boor, and a symptom of something sad and dehumanizing.