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Product Details:
Actors:
David Wells, William H. Macy, Bill Rothbard, Greg Baker, Elisha Cuthbert
Director:
n/a
Format:
Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
ANCHOR BAY
Run Time:
99 minutes
DVD Release Date:
January 15, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 59 reviews
Description:
Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) endures another eight hours in a dull grey cubicle. Ignored by his co-workers, Bob feels completely invisible and out of sync with the world. On one strange day he crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero when he saves beautiful Venessa (Elisha Cuthbert). His Boss (William H. Macy) transforms Bob into a new man but his good fortune is short lived when the Object of his Desire asks him to end her life.
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
SCARY AND ALL TOO REAL!Oct 25, 2008 Christian Slater gives a chilling performance in this small, but effective film. Slater plays a weak alienated man who is constantly ridiculed and bullied at work and through his daily life. We all know that there are people in this world like this, but watching this film, makes one think twice about dumping on the "quiet man". This is a well made film with more than a few surprises.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Much ado about nothing and (a) nobody - or 'postals' are people tooOct 19, 2008 Spending almost 2 hours watching this movie last night felt like a MAJOR waste of my time.
The plot is like this: Christian Slater is an office worker and he hates his job. He's flirting with the idea of mass-murdering his fellow office workers and there's one fish in his fish tank at home that's encouraging him to go on that path. Then, someone actually does it - shoots a few people before Christian shoots him and saves a pretty woman who doesn't die but she turns out paraplegic. He ends up a vice-president, gets the paraplegic girl who may recover some day but then, it turns out, it was he who shot everyone and it was all a fantasy of some sort.
That's IT.
Why was this movie made? Who or what is the targeted audience? Is there a message there, somewhere? Questions... questions...
Did the director, the producer, the script writer, the actors felt they were part of something important while at it? I have a tentative answer to this one: probably not.
If you feel like buying or renting a movie or even watching something on Showtime... look elsewhere or, chances are, you will be disappointed.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
I did not like this film.Oct 02, 2008 A man, played by Christian Slater, takes his gun to work every day. He is a disgruntled employee and simply cannot muster the strength, thankfully, to actually pull the trigger. One day as he his performing his daily ritual -- loading live amunition into the gun -- another coworker opens fire on the department. Slater's character then shoots that man and puts an end to his rampage. And he is almost declared the hero, though no one ever knows if he shot that man in defense or out of spite because that man did what he never could.
No matter how many times anyone describes this movie to me as a comedy, I will simply not understand where that comes from. You may call it a dark comedy, but it is dark without the comedy. The characters are all so uncomfortable around each other, you cannot help but feel uncomfortable seeing them on screen. The plot is weak, which would lead me to assume the characters were the focus, but consider that not only does Slater's guy take his gun to work everyday but he only talks to his fish. Oh yeah, and they talk to him too. You decide.
The movie glossed over the fact that he carried a gun to work every day, almost as if society has become so accustomed to violence that this is acceptable behavior. Society has become accustomed to a certain level of violence, which is sad in and of itself, but movies that take characters like this protagonist lightly are not ones I will enjoy.
1 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Couldn't get into itJun 11, 2008 The idea of more than one person in a film considering going "postal" just left me cold. The idea that is now stylish, to take out your frustrations on innocent bystanders as a way to make your own life important makes me angry. So I really didn't think this was worth watching, as the idea BEHIND the film irritates me beyond all measure. People who take out other people because their lives are a mess are evil. I don't enjoy a story that incorporates the idea, no matter how current the events.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Neat little movie...Apr 23, 2008 This is a little gem of a movie...it was made in 11 days and on a dime. But it's a powerful movie. Christian Slater was great. I hadn't even heard of this movie, but I really enjoyed it, but then I like off-beat movies.
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