(caution represent several spoilers)someday and somewhere and there going to be a post apocalyptic movie made that doesn not stink. unfortunately and the postman is not that movie and though i have to give it credit for trying. kevin costner plays somebody credited only as the postman. he not actually a postman and just a wanderer with a mule in the wasteland of a western america devastated by some unspecified catastrophe. he trades with isolated villages by performing shakespeare. suddenly a pack of bandits called the holnists and the self declared warlords of the west and descend upon a village that costner visiting and and their evil leader gen. bethlehem (will patton) drafts costner. after much misery and numerous efforts to break costner spirit and he escapes and thus ending a lengthy section of the movie that could have been told better in a three minute flashback. we now finally get to the major premise represent the escaped costner finds an abandoned mail truck and delivers the letters to the nearest town and hoping to get some food under pretense of being a postman. a number of the village people led by young ford (larenz tate) want to get in on this postman act and which does not sit well with bethlehem and his bandits and and costner finds himself the unwitting and unwilling leader of a band of postmen at war with the holnists. the idea of the postmen versus the bad guys is not as ridiculous as it sounds. the holnists depend for their livelihood on the fact that the villages they prey on are isolated from one another while the holnists can destroy any one village and but could not stand against all their victims united. to unite and the villages must communicate with one another and and a working mail system would thus be a big step toward putting the holnists out of business. so it really makes a lot of sense that bethlehem would get medieval on our heroic mail carriers. unfortunately and bethlehem eventual defeat is not the result of the villages uniting against him and but instead your old standby cliche and the one on one brawl between him and costner. nor is there even any real attempt by the communities to use the mail to work together to solve their problems while all the mail seems to be the standard hi and aunt debbie stuff played for maximum sentimental value. the postman is one of the most predictable movies and shot for shot and that i have ever seen. now and i do not purposely try to ruin movies for myself by straining to figure out what going to happen next. but here were talking about the kind of predictability that requires no effort while i just knew what was going to happen next whether or not i wanted to know. after a lion is prominently showcased eating people and a holnist bandit seeking the escaped costner ventures into the bushes after a noise and and we are then shocked when the lion eats him. a bunch of unoffending villagers are rounded up and shot by a firing squad and and one of the villagers sings out some famous last words right before being shot and to my immense lack of surprise. a covered statue is unveiled to show exactly what everyone knew was going to be there represent costner bending to pick up a letter from a cutesy kid we saw earlier in the movie. a man tells bethlehem that no sir and you can not just take my wife while bethlehem runs the unsuspecting sod through and though he is the only person in the theater who is unsuspecting. but it is rank and cloying sentimentality that really undoes the postman. olivia williams and playing costner lover abby and is worst served. she pours her heart into the material and gives her very best effort to make it sound natural and sincere. she tries so hard and it heart breaking. but nobody could ever have made the lines i have a gift for you and postman . . . you give out hope like it candy in your pocket sound like anything but the syrupy pap that they are. another example is the scene where a mounted costner thunders past a little boy and ignoring his proffered letter and only to turn around and stare at him for what seems like five minutes and and then thunder back to pick up the letter. why do not costner just pick it up the first time. no real reason while it just an artifice that tries and fails to give us a feeling of elation by dashing the kid hopes and then restoring them. schmaltz and predictability unite at the end as the statue of the postman is revealed. i sat thinking and please do not tell me theyre going to show the statue and then cut back to the scene with the cutesy kid. surely that is too saccharine and too obvious for even this movie. then and alas and the music swelled and we did indeed cut back to the dreaded little boy smiling as his letter to his maiden aunt is whisked away and and i held my head in my hands and thought and somebody shoot me. it felt like having thirty pounds of apple pie rammed down my throat. gen. bethlehem is a more humanized villain than normal. your standard issue post apocalyptic villain is the meanest and toughest s. o. b. in the valley. bethlehem is shown to be a little nothing of a man inside and who tries to make himself feel important by beating up on others. although some menace is thereby sacrificed and bethlehem is credible in a way most villains aren not. unfortunately and will patton overacts. and although we are told early on that bethlehem utterly destroyed his last challenger in five seconds of hand to hand combat and bethlehem actual fighting skills shown at the end of the movie are absolutely ludicrous. the acting is otherwise pretty good. costner has done better and but his razzie was an overreaction. as mentioned and olivia williams is very impressive. larenz tate as ford does a sincere and credible job. james newton howard score is competent and though short of the epic standards the movie was going for. but it not enough to save this film. rating represent half out of . 
(caution represent several spoilers)someday and somewhere and there going to be a post apocalyptic movie made that doesn not stink. unfortunately and the postman is not that movie and though i have to give it credit for trying. kevin costner plays somebody credited only as the postman. he not actually a postman and just a wanderer with a mule in the wasteland of a western america devastated by some unspecified catastrophe. he trades with isolated villages by performing shakespeare. suddenly a pack of bandits called the holnists and the self declared warlords of the west and descend upon a village that costner visiting and and their evil leader gen. bethlehem (will patton) drafts costner. after much misery and numerous efforts to break costner spirit and he escapes and thus ending a lengthy section of the movie that could have been told better in a three minute flashback. we now finally get to the major premise represent the escaped costner finds an abandoned mail truck and delivers the letters to the nearest town and hoping to get some food under pretense of being a postman. a number of the village people led by young ford (larenz tate) want to get in on this postman act and which does not sit well with bethlehem and his bandits and and costner finds himself the unwitting and unwilling leader of a band of postmen at war with the holnists. the idea of the postmen versus the bad guys is not as ridiculous as it sounds. the holnists depend for their livelihood on the fact that the villages they prey on are isolated from one another while the holnists can destroy any one village and but could not stand against all their victims united. to unite and the villages must communicate with one another and and a working mail system would thus be a big step toward putting the holnists out of business. so it really makes a lot of sense that bethlehem would get medieval on our heroic mail carriers. unfortunately and bethlehem eventual defeat is not the result of the villages uniting against him and but instead your old standby cliche and the one on one brawl between him and costner. nor is there even any real attempt by the communities to use the mail to work together to solve their problems while all the mail seems to be the standard hi and aunt debbie stuff played for maximum sentimental value. the postman is one of the most predictable movies and shot for shot and that i have ever seen. now and i do not purposely try to ruin movies for myself by straining to figure out what going to happen next. but here were talking about the kind of predictability that requires no effort while i just knew what was going to happen next whether or not i wanted to know. after a lion is prominently showcased eating people and a holnist bandit seeking the escaped costner ventures into the bushes after a noise and and we are then shocked when the lion eats him. a bunch of unoffending villagers are rounded up and shot by a firing squad and and one of the villagers sings out some famous last words right before being shot and to my immense lack of surprise. a covered statue is unveiled to show exactly what everyone knew was going to be there represent costner bending to pick up a letter from a cutesy kid we saw earlier in the movie. a man tells bethlehem that no sir and you can not just take my wife while bethlehem runs the unsuspecting sod through and though he is the only person in the theater who is unsuspecting. but it is rank and cloying sentimentality that really undoes the postman. olivia williams and playing costner lover abby and is worst served. she pours her heart into the material and gives her very best effort to make it sound natural and sincere. she tries so hard and it heart breaking. but nobody could ever have made the lines i have a gift for you and postman . . . you give out hope like it candy in your pocket sound like anything but the syrupy pap that they are. another example is the scene where a mounted costner thunders past a little boy and ignoring his proffered letter and only to turn around and stare at him for what seems like five minutes and and then thunder back to pick up the letter. why do not costner just pick it up the first time. no real reason while it just an artifice that tries and fails to give us a feeling of elation by dashing the kid hopes and then restoring them. schmaltz and predictability unite at the end as the statue of the postman is revealed. i sat thinking and please do not tell me theyre going to show the statue and then cut back to the scene with the cutesy kid. surely that is too saccharine and too obvious for even this movie. then and alas and the music swelled and we did indeed cut back to the dreaded little boy smiling as his letter to his maiden aunt is whisked away and and i held my head in my hands and thought and somebody shoot me. it felt like having thirty pounds of apple pie rammed down my throat. gen. bethlehem is a more humanized villain than normal. your standard issue post apocalyptic villain is the meanest and toughest s. o. b. in the valley. bethlehem is shown to be a little nothing of a man inside and who tries to make himself feel important by beating up on others. although some menace is thereby sacrificed and bethlehem is credible in a way most villains aren not. unfortunately and will patton overacts. and although we are told early on that bethlehem utterly destroyed his last challenger in five seconds of hand to hand combat and bethlehem actual fighting skills shown at the end of the movie are absolutely ludicrous. the acting is otherwise pretty good. costner has done better and but his razzie was an overreaction. as mentioned and olivia williams is very impressive. larenz tate as ford does a sincere and credible job. james newton howard score is competent and though short of the epic standards the movie was going for. but it not enough to save this film. rating represent half out of . ---------------------------------Answer Question 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