Tonight with Friends: 3 Hours of Kevin Costner’s Unjustly Forgotten Sci-Fi Film… Waiting for the Horizon to Catch!

Before the release of Horizon, the first part of the four-film saga directed by Kevin Costner and dedicated to the conquest of the West, you can check out or watch The Postman, his second work after Dances with Wolves, which was released in 1998 and now. Available on the Max platform.

From the moment he was cast, Kevin Costner hired Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential) to rewrite the script, specifically keeping the message and the ending of the novel that inspired the film. Hostalion By David Breen. Their idea is to make The Postman a post-apocalyptic film in which hope prevails, unlike feature films of this genre, which are often despairing.

The Postman is set in a United States divided by nuclear and bacteriological warfare. Through pure opportunism, a man named Gordon Krantz (Costner) collects a uniform from the old US Postal Service and makes his way to a small isolated but supportive community. Little does he imagine that his mere presence will give them hope and enable them to fight against the dictatorship that threatens them.

Costner is also very good in this thriller, which is available for free

Very successful atmosphere

The main drawback of the postman is its length. At three hours, the occasional repetitive moments can dampen the enthusiasm of even Kevin Costner fans. However, the film has a special and successful survival atmosphere, such as the representation of isolated and united communities and the totalitarian military forces that want to take power under the leadership of General Bethlehem (Will Patton, who was already the villain of One Way, and who can be seen in Yellowstone and who will be on the horizon, in Costner’s next film).

A few years later, The Sons of Man (2006) would occupy the same mix of post-apocalypse and hope as The Postman, with much greater critical and public success. Rated 4 out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers, the Clive Owen-directed film far surpasses The Postman’s 2.6 out of 5.