Maaaaaaaaaaan, I don't understand the fascination with the word "cheese" and THE POSTMAN. Can anyone write a review of THE POSTMAN without it? Well here is the latest review of THE POSTMAN from the Victor von Velveeta!!!
The Revolutionary war meets Federal Express
As in Waterworld, Kevin Costner plays the same arrogant "must be the hero" role that does nothing but show what a potentially good actor turns into when stardom takes control. I won't drag on about story details, but I will say this much, The Postman is about a selfish drifter in the near future captured by a conniving gang called the "Eights" (or something like that). Costner manages to escape, finds a dead postal worker, steals his uniform, and poses as a mail carrier to redeem food and sanctuary in small, locked-up communities. It is not until a gang of young and old wanna-bes decide to make The Postman's (Kevin Costner's) cause actuality that conflict strikes the Eights against everyone who submits to the belief of a Restored United States.
Don't get me wrong, the idea sounds warrantable and even intriguing from a cinematic standpoint, but the film strives to be serious and heart-felt when in fact it is not. A combination of Independence Day's patriotic attitude coupled with Mad Max, and the US Postal Service. And not only that, Kevin Costner delivers a speech about what a postman is, no different than Bill Pullman's Fourth of July pep-talk, only three times as long-much like this film.
The script is as cheesy as Wallace and Gromit's moon of cheese. Costner plays a flowery dramatic role wanting to be sincere, preaching morals like: we are all equal, live and let live, and most important, everyone must learn to read, delivered by his more believable supporting characters. Unfortunately, for all intensive purposes, he comes off as a lazy joker trying to be dramatic. The only good acting in the film comes from Olivia Williams in her feature film debute, who's persona slightly resembles the princess in Braveheart, and Ford Lincoln Mercury-no not a car dealership-played by Larenz Tate (Dead Presidents, Menace II Society). On the good side, the executions are pretty cool, as is most of the action, and the film's opening shows promise. However, the resolution, and a statue of Kevin Costner as "the hero," is about as uplifting and spectacular as a documentary on Fungus reproduction.
