When a movie opens with a wholly uncomfortable alternate look at what happened on 9/11, you get a pretty good idea of what you’re in for. Postal is unrelenting in its offensiveness and it relishes its ability to tick you off. That said, it’s damn funny.
This is not a movie for anyone with any sensitivity and by "sensitivity," I mean having any sort of aversion to humor based off of German death camps, Jews, trailer parks, fat people, religion, naked bodies (both sexes), silencer cats, George Bush, and a midget being raped by 1,000 monkeys. Yes, Postal is truly a movie with it all.
In actuality, it is a bad movie. The direction is static and uninteresting. The acting is terrible, with lead Zack Ward being the only one who actually "gets it." Uwe Boll's cameo is painful to watch, Chris Coppola is too over the top even for this movie, and the female cast only got their parts for, um, their "parts." The budget appears to have been roughly that of an eight year old's allowance.
That said, the film is so incredibly irreverent that it’s also enormously entertaining. His ability to deliver entertainment value is the reason Uwe Boll keeps finding the necessary funding to ruin perfectly competent video games by turning them into movies. In this case, the plot is haphazard, almost too hard to describe, and has only bits and pieces from the video game.
The basics: A shipment of super hot Krotchy dolls (the latest kids fad which looks like something you'd find in a crotch) is being delivered to a German festival. Al Qaeda and a religious cult both want some of them to sell at high prices on an online auction site. Chaos ensues as they battle it out. That's it. Maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere about life and love, but it's drowned out by gunfire and nukes.
That’s only a small part of the idiocy Postal is so proud of. It’s so incomprehensible, it can’t even be considered legitimate cinema. Yet, if it makes you laugh, then it’s doing something right. Postal works simply because of its ability to make you laugh, even if everything else is a compete and total failure. 
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