This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

From my favorite movies..

An action-packed slog

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

...but it isn't horrible either. It treats a post-apocalyptic scenario as a semi sweet chocolate bar. Even the evil warlord is played as a pompous tyrant, with little more than greed for power as his goal...There is a story here, but it is overshadowed by some rather meaningless dialog, and mediocre acting, even by Kevin. this movie's saving grace is the premise of renewing the security of a forgotten land...through, you guessed it, a Postal Worker carrying mail to isolated people...No, it won't impress a lot of folks, but darn it, The Postman is a pretty entertainingly odd couple hours of distraction...

Kevin Costner's second post-apocalypse movie in the same number of years after WATERWORLD is a real yawner of a film, simply because the limited story does not fill three hours of screen time. An hour and a half and this might have made a decent movie, but at three hours the pacing is a crawl and the film difficult to sit through without losing interest. As an adventure, it's also seriously lacking in the kind of action these films require, and the minimal battles and fights that do exist are rather mundanely portrayed and uninteresting. Instead, it appears that Costner is interested in the moralising, the sentimentality, and the occasionally pretentious storyline about an everyday drifter who pretends to be a postman and invents a story of a new government in order to bring hope to the post-holocaust masses.It has to be said that the story is original and interesting (a rarity these days), but the endless padding and cheesy romance between Costner and Olivia Williams seriously drags things down. Costner is adequate in the role as the hero but seems unsure of himself at times, just giving vague expressions instead of acting when he has to. Instead of the clear-cut heroic roles of his past, instead he's portrayed as a pacifist and occasional coward who only fights after being hunted down by the enemy. His thunder is somewhat stolen by the superb and underrated Will Patton as the bad guy, General Bethlehem, who gives an in-depth and multi-layered performance as the intelligent villain and has a great screen presence - it's a shame this man doesn't get leading roles. Larenz Tate is also good as the young patriot, but Olivia Williams and her corny romance belongs in another film. The supporting cast is littered with the familiar faces of James Russo, Daniel von Bargen, Tom Petty, Giovanni Ribisi, and Joe Santos, but nobody gets a look in much and the only developed characters are Costner, Tate, Williams, and Patton.Without a doubt, THE POSTMAN has some great cinematography in places, especially in the sweeping vistas and magnificent landscapes it often uses as a backdrop. Yet the special effects are kept to a bare minimum, thus alienating the young thrill-seeking crowd, and after the blood-and-thunder of the likes of Mel Gibson's BRAVEHEART, audiences weren't expecting this off beat, slow-paced and preachy epic. I didn't hate it as much as some, but I did find it hard to keep up the energy of watching it in places. Probably the best aspect of the story is its originality, but this frequently means taking the tale into unsatisfying areas. Not a total failure, but that running time is a real killer for this kind of story.

Kevin Costner has to be the most under appreciated actor alive because none of his movies are in the list of the top 250.I didn't see the movie in theaters back then, so when I saw its ratings, I was a little moved to see such low ratings and appreciations. And then I watched it, and I guarantee you, you will remember this movie quite well and positively. It is a very good movie, it's three hours but they really don't seem three boring hours like in the Godather. Kevin Costner giving his best effort as usual.The Postman just might be Costner's best works. Of course, not as much as Dances with Wolves and Waterworld, but the effort displayed, the stage, the number of people they cast, the dialogue too isn't lame.There are aspects that don't work, such as: why did Costner make an apocalyptic movie two years after Waterworld ? It doesn't make sense, especially since WW is set in the year 3000, but he's free to do it.The Postman is a very inspiring movie, carries a message of hope, people's democracy, against fascism.You can see Costner's development evolves, from a friendly animator, to a survival drifter, to a selfish man escaping his lies, to a leader fighting for a purpose that he started. Really, I urge people to see this movie, don't let the unfair ratings misguide you.

When everyone thought Kevin Costner have learned from the Waterworld disaster, he stroke back with this. Just wishful thinking. The postman is simply Waterworld on the ground. A post apocalyptic world with some bad guys that have as their leader a very very bad guy. The best way they have to have fun is harass people around. Have seen that before? Yes, you have. Since Mad Max script writers have been insisting on the idea, translating it to different environments as if that was a way to make something new and creative. And, heavens! I really can't understand the true obsession American script writers have with the "Militia" thing. Must perhaps be due to the fact that in USA the gun rules since the old west times and their psychology can't get rid from that fetish.