| The Postman Review |
| by pm agapow |
| Once again, Kevin Costner spends far too much time, money and
seriousness on a slim tale. He plays an itinerant actor who reluctantly
becomes a symbol of freedom. But then, everyone thinks they're an actor
in this film. more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Curtis Edmonds |
| When you say the words "Frank Capra" and "Christmas movie", most of us
are hard-wired or one response: It's a Wonderful Life. But there is
another Frank Capra Christmas movie that gets overlooked as a result;
Meet John Doe, starring Gary Cooper. more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Tim Voon |
| THE POSTMAN 1997
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1998 Timothy Voon
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| The Postman Review |
| by Andy Wright |
| Directed by Kevin Costner
Written for the Screen by Brian Helgeland and Eric Roth from the Novel
by David Brin
Starring: Costner, Will Patton (No Way Out), Olivia Williams, Larenz
Tate (Dead Presidents)
Year of Release: 1997
Rating: R more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Gordon Hamachi |
| After seeing The Postman myself, I have a hard time understanding why
the critics have been so savage with it. While not brilliant, The
Postman is a good, solid work with some brilliant moments. more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Michael J. Legeros |
| (WB)
Directed by Kevin Costner
Written by Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland, from the novel by
David Brin
Cast Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia
Williams
MPAA Rating "R" (presumably for...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Laurie D. T. Mann |
| I really wanted to like this movie. I loved the original David
Brin novella, which was written in the early '80, and even Brin
himself has said that the shooting version of the script
wasn't too bad. The Postman was one of the most frustrating movies...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Yen, Homer |
| It's funny - ironic really, how we take for granted one of our most
established and tried and true forms of communications. I'm not
talking about phones or faxes or e-mail. I'm referring to that great
system that we call the postal service. In the...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Michael Redman |
| [Warning: My opinion of this film is definitely in the minority of reviewers
perhaps because it hits so many of my cinematic buttons: post-apocalypse
stories, hope in a desperate situation, grassroots uprisings and Kevin
Costner. Even worse, I thought...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Mark R Leeper |
| Capsule: After some unexplained apocalyptic
war that destroyed society, a drifter is looking
for a free meal. He pretends to be a postman from
a newly reformed US Government and unintentionally...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Walter Frith |
| Cynics were already taking shots at director/star Kevin Costner's film
'The Postman' as it was in production and dubbed it 'Dirtworld', mocking it
in reference to Costner's terrible and empty 1995 film 'Waterworld' about
the Earth consumed by...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Serdar Yegulalp |
| THE POSTMAN may be the single dumbest movie I've ever seen. Not the
worst -- I still leave that accolade to be divided between STARSHIP
TROOPERS and MONEY TRAIN -- but by far the dumbest. It takes a
situation that had plenty of possibilities, which are...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by James Sanford |
| THE POSTMAN
(Warner Brothers)
The postman doesn't deliver on Christmas Day, and "The Postman," Kevin
Costner's Christmas gift to America, doesn't deliver much in the way of
entertainment, regardless of what day it is. A bloated, overwrought telling
of a...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by David Sunga |
| The Postman (1997)
Rating: 2.5 stars (out of 4.0)
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Key to rating system:
2.0 stars Debatable
2.5 stars Some people may like it
3.0 stars I liked it
3.5 stars I am biased in favor of the movie
4.0 stars I felt the...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James
Russo, Daniel von Bargen
Rated PG-13: Violence, sex, language more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| Kevin Costner's latest post-apocalyptic epic, THE POSTMAN, asks
the rhetorical question: Is a bad, two hour movie made better by
expanding it to three? more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| THE POSTMAN (Warner Bros.)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, and Olivia Williams.
Screenplay: Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland, based on the novel by David Brin.
Producers: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, and Steve Tisch.
Director: Kevin...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| By Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
Warner Bros./Tig Production
Director: Kevin Costner
Writer: Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland, book by David Brin
Cast: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia
Williams, James Russo, Tom Petty more |
| The Postman Review |
| by Miles Southan |
| Forget the Little Caesars advertisement with the dancing dog. "The
Postman" is now the most entertaining commercial I have ever seen. I
didn't know until the credits rolled that I had actually been watching a
movie - I thought it was an ad for the US...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by E. Benjamin Kelsey |
| When I first heard about THE POSTMAN, the whole idea seemed very laughable to
me. It's the future, the world has become a wasteland, and somehow, somewhere,
a postman appears and becomes the icon of hope. A postman? A *postman*?!?! I
thought to myself,...more |
| The Postman Review |
| by James Berardinelli |
| United States, 1997
U.S. Release Date: 12/25/97 (wide)
Running Length: 2:57
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, sex, brief nudity, profanity)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 more |
