A bad movie

Even though it was a huge flop, I was still curious about this flick. Unfortunately, I must admit it, it was indeed pretty bad, as a matter of fact, it was even worse than I expected. I mean, even though ‘Dances with Wolves’ was a decent movie, I never thought it was really amazing and I was never convinced by Kevin Costner’s directing skills. This movie made it clear I was right. I mean, it is very very long, it even takes Costner 1 hour to finally became the famous ‘Postman’…. Furthermore, I always had a weak spot for post-apocalyptic features but this one must be the least convincing one I have ever seen. I mean, there wasn’t a single moment when I believed in the time and place portrayed. Even though it was supposed to take place in the future, it looked more like a Western, but not a good one. The tonality was also all over the place. I mean, Costner took the same approach as for ‘Dances with Wolves’, in the sense, that you had the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other, but even though it was not brilliant in ‘Dances…’, it did work, but here, with this genre, it required a much more subtle approach, at least, that’s my opinion. I could point out many other odd things like how the Postman gave guns to some children who just butcher their opponent or how he makes a woman pregnant and, conveniently, her husband gets killed by the bad guys later on. Awkward, awkward,… and it goes on and on like this for 3 hours. Basically, it is a terrible mess and I’m not surprised it was such a flop. Fortunately, Kevin Costner would redeem himself as a director with ‘Open Range’ which turned out to be his best directing effort and is criminally underrated and barely seen. To conclude, this movie was pretty bad, ‘Dances with Wolves’ seems indeed like a masterpiece compared to it, and it is definitely not worth a look.

4/10