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Summary: Patriotism? Yes, please.
Review: Maybe this movie would have been ridiculuous to me if I had seen it last year at this time. But things have changed. I have changed. Approaching the one year anniversary of the September 11th disaster, I still feel no sense of closure. What I do feel, however, is more patriotic than I have ever felt in my life. I can say that I love my country and what it stands for. I am actually proud to be an American. THE POSTMAN echoes these feelings, and I enjoy seeing them in this film. I can fully identify with Costner's character at the final battle scene of the movie, where he grates out, "I believe--in the United States!" Cynical criticism has no place here. I'll take patriotism.
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Summary: not as bad as you might of heard
Review: My review of the Postman is it not as bad as what what you might of heard. It by far not Kevin Costner best work but he does a great job and he not bad behind the camera .
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Summary: Garbage
Review: With the exception of The Island of Dr. Moreau - this is the worst piece of filth I have even seen.
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Summary: Underated
Review: I've seen this movie several times and I like it alot. I love the story and the atmospere in it. It's not perfect but what movie is. I can't immagine anyone at least not liking it.
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Summary: The Postman: The Allegory of Order
Review: Fans who pan THE POSTMAN tend to judge Kevin Costner by his poor performance in WATERWORLD. In this later movie, he plays a web-footed loner who seeks dry land as a sort of gritty Holy Grail. Costner as the Postman again was the loner, but this time he embodies a stirring rebirth of hope that his female lead Olivia Williams says, that he 'dispenses like candy... The film glorifies in an unabashed way the virtues of the good old USA in a manner that had been often pilloried and ridiculed as the politically correct version of patriotism--at least until 9-11. The stirring cavalry charge of American men and women that concludes the movie brings to mind a similar earlier charge made at Balaklava Heights in the Crimea. Errol Flynn led that one in THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
To be fair to the negative critics of the movie, there are flaws to THE POSTMAN that cannot be overlooked. It is excessively long, cliche ridden, and filled with a plethora of secondary characters that ought not to have been included in the first place... There is the individual vignette of heroism, often between the nameless postman and his evil opponent, effectively portrayed by Will Paton... And then there is the patriotism that infuses the entire second half, culminating in the cavalry charge. Yet, these plusses by themselves cannot account for the film's current positive reappraisal. To me, as I see THE POSTMAN in repeated viewings, I see a political and psychological subtext. In THE POSTMAN Costner represents this deep yearning of both resident hopeless character within the film and each member of the audience to find a paradigm of longlasting order and rule, not the rule of a few simple barbaric laws as postulated by the General, but the rules of an ordered society as the one that Costner suggests can still be resuscitated if only they maintain the faith that such a revival is possible. Each scene from the first confrontation between the postman and the General to the postman's finding that sack of US mail to the climactic confrontation between the forces of order and disorder as exemplified respectively by the postman and the General, all coalesce to emphasize the need to bring order out of disorder. When a movie like THE POSTMAN makes this point as stirringly as it does, then most viewers are inclined to overlook the errors and just plain bad acting of key performers. What we have then, is a movie that is much better than it seemed just a few years ago. And this just points out the need to occasionally re-evaluate that which we thought we knew for sure.
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Summary: Great Actor , Excellent Director
Review: In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow only scattered survivors across what was ones the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope. DANCES WITH WOLVES double Academy Award winner KEVIN COSTNER directs and plays a wayfarer in a world where might makes right - but destined to lead a heroic rebellion where right makes right. Sweeping battle scenes, breathtaking wilderness vistas and touching moments of personal triumph combine to ensure " THE POSTMAN delivers!".
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Summary: Great movie, although the box office didn't agree
Review: I couldn't believe my ears when I heard that this movie didn't receive any awards for anything. I'll have to admit, that Kevin Costner's other movie "Waterworld" was a grave mistake to go see but they should keep an open mind about this one. When I saw this movie in 1999, it ranked up there along with Armageddon and The Matrix. Even if you couldn't stand "Waterworld" (and who could blame you) you should check this movie out. It deserved to at least be nominated for an award.
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Summary: The Postman delivers more laughs than thrills
Review: Many people will see call "The Postman" the worst movie in some time, but lets be fair. The movie is ill-conceived, pretentious as hell, and makes me feel less inspired than when I saw Navy SEALs. Costner's directorial effort shows promise in a certain perspective but wriths in a contrived and artificial characters with dialogue inspiried by a Middle School play. Costner plays the unamed protaganist as a aimless wanderer who survives by performing shakesperian workd for townsfolk too damn ignorant to figure how badly recited it all is. Will Patton plays a fascist demgogue bent on controlling what little is left of the modern USA. Through details to mindless to uninspired to tell costner ends up as the Postman, a symbol of freedom and stability long lost since the advent of apathy and superstition. Some praise must be said to visual look of the film, the sweeping foregrounds and diverse landscapes keep us somewhat interested, and at clocking just over 3 hours does manage to convey an epic feel. See this if you like flops and disasters, next time you see your postman you will likely hold him as a saviour figure if this movie interseted you.
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Summary: A Movie Whose Time Has Come
Review: This movie was blasted by the critics when release, partly from guilt by association with WATERWORLD, but also because of what it is, an unabashedly patriotic, un-ironic film. It seems to me that these sentiments are now in fashion once again, and this movie deserves another look. What could be more appropriate for these times than a movie that frames mail delivery as an heroic aspect of civilization? Yes, the movie has a few problems: Some of the lines are cheesy, the "un-ironic" aspect veers close to corniness at a few points, and the film is sometimes unnecessarily violent given it's flag-waving message (I suspect that the violence was calulated to produce an R-rating in an ill-conceived marketing effort). But overall, this is a visually beautiful, stirring film with several interesting premises, and is really quite intelligent in an "unsophisticated" way. Here's an observation: One minor plot detail in THE POSTMAN goes a long way to explaining this movie. At the beginning, conscripts in the evil army are allowed to watch THE SOUND OF MUSIC, but the leaders are displeased when UNIVERSAL SOLDIER is loaded on the projector. In a sense, THE POSTMAN has THE SOUND OF MUSIC's lack of irony, and thus was pilloried when it was released in the cynical late 90's. Conversely, THE POSTMAN's weakest moments are when it tries to inject UNIVERSAL SOLDIER-like elements. Sounds like the rock-throwing evil-army leaders had it just about right. Too bad the studio marketing department didn't listen! Give this movie another chance. In the public's current state of mind, THE POSTMAN could be a big hit. Of course, thse of us who do not take their opinions from the media have liked this movie all along, for precisely what it is.
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Summary: the ending is spoiled already.
Review: I don't hate this movie, but I do hate the way it ends. I won't tell you what happens, but ask yourself, have you ever seen a movie that culminates with a good guy showing mercy to a bad guy, and then the bad guy shows his gratitude by promptly endeavoring to kill the hero? This way the good guy looks really really really good. And the bad guy looks equally bad. Like I said, I don't hate the movie, but this gigantic monument to cliche at the end is the part I remember most clearly.
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