![]() He tells the people that the United States Government has been restored, and that there's a new president. BOOM! Disguising himself as a mailman, he walks to a nearby town hoping to find food. Costner plays a man who wanders the countryside doing Shakespeare for the townsfolk with his mule (?!?) and just so happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when General Bethlehem's squad comes trotting in on their horses looking for new conscripts.Īfter Costner escapes Bethlehem's band of not-so-merry men, he ends up finding an old mail truck in the middle of the forest, and in that truck.he finds.wait for it.a certain uniform. Led by General Bethlehem the militia rides from town to town taking young, able-bodied men to recruit and stealing supplies for his army. Along with the various colonies that have popped up, a renegade militia has taken hold of the countryside. The people ride horses (thank heavens all the horses survived). This nuclear war apparently was so bad that it wiped out every form of technology (except for guns of course). Groups of people have formed colonies throughout the United States, although curiously, the movie only gives us a glimpse at the Pacific Northwest. Didn't Costner learn his lesson with another little turkey like this? It's just so silly that it's impossible to take serious.Ĭivilization is rebuilding itself after a worldwide nuclear war. ![]() Kevin Costner's 'The Postman' plays out more like a spoof of a spaghetti western than a heart-wrenching post apocalyptic tale. What a complete miscalculation in filmmaking! 'The Postman,' has got to be one of the most ill-timed, unintentionally funny epics in the history of cinema.
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