Best movie of this year hands down!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Charlie Sheen's career has had many highs and lows and back in the late 90s he found himself out of favour with Hollywood's elite. Before resurrecting his career on television he was only able to exploit his star power in direct-to-video releases. In an effort to be taken more seriously, Sheen tried formalising his name for films such as Postmortem. Nobody noticed. Directed by Albert Pyun, the serial killer thriller was arguably a career low. Sheen plays a borderline alcoholic ex-cop drawn back into the field of serial killer profiling when a girl is found dead. Although this sounds fairly standard, the film's location is unique. Postmortem was made in Scotland! The sight of Charlie Sheen wandering around bars in Glasgow is pretty surreal. Featuring a supporting cast of local talent and various unknowns, what Postmortem lacks in Hollywood production qualities (it's cheaper looking than an episode of Taggart) it at least makes up for in curiosity value.

James McGregor (Charlie Sheen), An Ex-FBI profiler turned novelist returns to his home land of Scotland for piece and quiet. But McGregor has a drinking problem and having trouble forgetting his last disturbing case from his past. There's an mysterious murderer in Scotland, which this killer writes obituaries before he murders his victim. Which this killer sends his obituary to McGregor. At first, McGregor thinks it's a joke until the dead body was found in his backyard. Now McGregor is forced to investigate the crime with the help of two inspectors (Michael Halsey and Ivana Milicevic). McGregor has to do anything to stop the killer before he receives another obituary.Directed by Albert Pyun (Mean Guns, Radioactive Dreams, The Sword and the Socerer) made an reasonable if familiar thriller. Pyun is been responsible for making some decent B-Movies and mostly made very awful ones. "Postmortem" is actually his best work as a director. He gives Sheen an moody performance in this. This was only released in Europe and never played in the U.S., Which it was a Direct to Video here. This picture does take time to start, which the movie is extremely slow at first. But once you past the first twenty minutes, you find yourself enjoying this thriller. Clairmont-Scope. (*** 1/2 out of *****).

In "Postmortem", Sheen plays a burnt out ex homicide detective from San Francisco who, while hiding from his past in Scotland and booze, gets caught up in a serial killer mystery. The flick is okay artistically though at times so ponderously morose and dark as to have the appearance of an old Frankenstein flick. Sheen wears out the one serious expression in his repertoire of nuanced visages; taught lipped and frowning. The flick doesn't quite make it over the bar on major plot issues such as the spent cop dealing with demons; the investigation becomes a bit convoluted; and the ending is predictable, anticlimactic, and could have been better. Etc. Nonetheless, "Postmortem" makes for an okay watch for Sheen fans, serial killers, and the idle with an appetite for macabre stuff.

If you don't expect too much from a serial killer thriller, this movie is nice entertainment. Directed by Albert Pyun, better known for trashy made science fiction/action/martial arts movies, it introduces a disillusioned and alcohol-addicted U.S. cop (played by ex-star Charlie Sheen) to a series of brutal girl murders in the Scottish countryside. The film is nothing special, just a cop losing his mind, being suspected of being the murderer, and finally tracking down the real killer and saving the last victim from its fate. The setting is outstanding, with the dark architecture of Scottish cities and the sinister atmosphere of Hammer-Horror-like countryside. Sit back and be thrilled for 105 minutes of nice serial killer entertainment!