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Director Albert Pyun had a long career in dtv b-movies. Reading his bio you see words like "award winning" and a bunch of flowery praise being heaped upon the man. All the "big names" he worked with. The reality is most of the movies he did are cheap & quite bad, but for years the consensus was you had to watch 'Mean Guns' or 'Postmortem' to see the best from him. So here I am.

I guess when the bar is set so low ... when your previous efforts have been so poor there's nowhere to go but up. This is a fairly average hunt for a serial killer flick. The only thing it does to distinguish itself from its genre peers is being set in Scotland. Oh plus and a throwback to Charlie Sheen before his problems blew up in a very public manner playing a guy who's a wreck. Hindsight being 20/20 and such.

McGregor (Sheen) is a divorced American ex-cop, profiler and author laying low in Scotland after seeing too much death. He soaks his days away in booze, advil, cigarettes and takeout food. He's been living there six months and he's estranged from his son. When a dead body turns up outside his house he goes from suspect to helping the local police as the bodies continue to pile up.

There's nothing wrong with 'Postmortem' on a deep level, but it's also lacking in real suspense or solid thrills. Going through the usual story motions in low budget fashion. Ivana Milicevic (Casino Royale) and Pyun regular Michael Halsey play police Inspectors.