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The Postman

1997

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams ...

4.7

13,387

Adventure. Sci-Fi In 2013 there are no highways, no Iaws, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are those who will no doubt call 'The Postman' the worst film of the year, but it's too good-hearted for that. It's goofy, yes, and pretentious (...) And it's way too long (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"The dialogue, a numbing succession of western-movie cliches, is spoken with a cartoon-balloon emphasis that makes it seem all the more phony."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Opening section is a bit too leisurely and not entirely promising (...) Visually, the pic is nearly always stimulating (...) Certain key thematic notes are hit too heavily"	NEU
United States	Russell Smith Austin Chronicle	"Costner simply abdicates all artistic restraint and goes off on sentimental wilding sprees (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"It leaves the impression of a great setting in search of a workable plot (...) Long, long, long and quite a little bit like a Wetern actually (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"There are some movie ideas so fundamentally goofy that they cannot be made into a good film. And I'm afraid Kevin Costner (...) may have stumbled on one of them"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"A sense of déjà vu pervades this self-directed, over long and outsized Costner project (...) Only Costner's character is at all remarkable"	NEU
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"I liked 'The Postman' with major, major reservations (...) Costner here seems to reason that if a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, then a dump truck full of saccharine will do the job ten times as efficiently."	NEU

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