Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

bheadher ...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...

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to The Postman from 1997.Plot In A Paragraph: Whilst living in post-apocalyptic America, a nameless drifter (KC) dons a postman's uniform, and armed with a bag of mail sets out to con his way into various communities, for free food and shelter. As he does this, he accidentally begins to inspire hope to others. Any goodwill KC earned with Tin Cup was well and truly gone, by the time this movie was released. Mocked as a vanity project during its production, and greeted to savage reviews, including being labelled "Dances With Myself" The Postman never stood a chance, as critics and and the press had a field day, and the public listened to them staying away in droves. Is it perfect?? Far from it. For starters I think it could use some trimming here and there. Maybe if it was an hour shorter it would not have been so savagely reviewed and may have found more of an audience. Because for this reviewer all of the performances are good, it's well directed and has a good score. But sadly, I'd reviewers say stay away, the public behave like sheep and generally listen. I think some people who bash this movie have not actually seen it.

Python Hyena The Postman (1997): Dir: Kevin Costner / Cast: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Olivia Williams, James Russo, Tom Petty: Kevin Costner's flimsy follow up to Dances With Wolves with a theme regarding hope with mail carrying as a reference. Story regards towns isolated due to an army led by Will Patton. Costner plays a drifter who is taken prisoner. He escapes and finds refuge in a jeep where a skeleton and mailbag reside. He puts on the uniform in hopes that it will grant him a meal in the next town. He encounters a man who begs him to pregnant his wife so that they may have a child. Of course this man will be murdered so that Costner can move in anyway. Meanwhile Patton orders that every mail carrier be killed. Preposterous setup leads to unintentional humour that works like a bag of sh*t under your Christmas tree. This all ends with Costner and Patton pounding the snot out of each other and we are suppose to cheer it on despite its absurdity. Olivia Williams plays his childless mate whose prime purpose is to get banged without a rubber. James Russo is also featured as her husband whose purpose is to be expendable so that Costner can voice his superiority. Musician Tom Petty makes an appearance although one wonders how old he is at this point. Terrible and embarrassing epic that never had a chance of actually working. It is a laughable misfire by all involved. Score: 2 / 10

tiankem **Spoiler alert (barely)** What the hell were the critics smoking with the terrible reviews about this movie! This movie was made in 1997 yet the undeserved criticism still unnerves me. The Postman is arguably the best post-apocalyptic movie ever made! I love the way that this movie keeps a post-world-war setting realistic, small and with communal ties. It correctly portrays a realistic lack of communication due to an unnamed catastrophe (probably an EMP and/or Nuke). The story is especially interesting because of the way the Postman literally stumbles into his role due to a desire to survive but then passionately becomes the lie he is portraying only after a woman kicks his butt into gear (isn't that what usually happens in life?). Kevin Costner does an outstanding job, as does Olivia Williams and especially Will Patton. Got to love the cameo by Tom Petty! I read Brin's book and it starts out very well but then moves from a realistic and thrilling post-apocalyptic survival story to a wasteland of fantastic tech story tangents. The movie on the other hand is adapted very well for the big screen and keeps the plot on task, despite the 3 hour time frame (I had no problem with this in this movie). Strange how the book was award-winning yet the movie got so much criticism; that's backwards if you ask me. This movie is about HOPE. Those critics that thought certain scenes were "cheesy" or that "it was the worst movie of the year" are the same critics that continually keep the minions on track toward the brainless, plot less movies that have a serious lack of character development...but hey, they have GREAT special effects and action! They are the same critics that laugh at the very notion of HOPE in movies. HOPE is something our world needs more of and it was the powerful and critical ingredient that sparked a revolution in The Postman. I loved this movie! I rarely watch movies more than once or twice yet I own this movie and have watched it countless times. I am a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre and this movie is easily in my top 5 of that genre! I find it interesting that over 52,000 "non-critics" have voted about this movie on this website, and the highest number of votes came in at 7 out of 10 (10,630 votes); hardly "the worst movie of the year". Thank you Kevin for choosing to make The Postman over other choices you had at the time. Those of us "non-critics" appreciate it!