'Postal'

Rating: (no stars)

John Anderson

May 23, 2008

POSTAL (R). It's a sad fact that movies don't get any better after the first five minutes, but Uwe ("BloodRayne") Boll has proved consistently that they can get a lot worse. This is a considerable accomplishment in the case of "Postal" (based on a video game, like all Boll's "work"), which begins with comedic Arabs hijackers arguing about the rewards of paradise in the cockpit of United 93, and then really kicks things off with a window-washer's-eye view of a jet crashing into the World Trade Center. 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. With Dave Foley, Zack Ward, Verne Troyer, Seymour Cassel. Written by Uwe Boll, Bryan C. Knight. Directed by Uwe Boll. 1:40. (adult content, vulgarity, violence). At the Cobble Hill Cinemas, Brooklyn.