The film's haphazardly edited, lacks narrative clout, and rambles on to a ludicrously extended conclusion.
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01/26/06
Barb Wire (1996)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:10
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Barb Wire could've been fun camp, but Pamela Anderson can't deliver her lines with any dramatic or comedic impact.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Based on the Dark Horse comic book, "Barb Wire" takes place in the town of Steel Harbor during the year 2017, after the second Civil War. Steel Harbor is one of the few cities still free from the... [More]
Starring: Pamela Anderson Lee, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Xander Berkeley
Director: David Hogan
Reviews for Barb Wire
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01/01/00
Top Critichis cartoonlike starring vehicle for Pamela Anderson Lee offers enough choreographed fight sequences, heavy artillery and fleeting glimpses of the star's august body parts to satisfy the raging hormones of its target young male audience.
04/27/07
Top CriticWe used to complain about Hollywood travesties of great books; now we're reduced to kvetching about movies that cheapen the comic strips on which they're based.
04/27/07
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04/28/07
Top CriticThe hypocrisy level is annoying.
01/01/00
There's something sad about Lee purposely sculpting her breasts to resemble basketballs, then parading around topless or nearly topless for most of the film, while her character is supposed to comically strike a blow for feminism.
01/01/00
No review available.
10/05/06
Director David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills.
01/01/00
After a while [the] novelty wears off.
12/04/02
The past two years have been Bad Movie manna for fans of deliriously cheesy sci-fi thrillers set in the near future.
11/06/01
No review available.
08/11/05
The movie carries its cyberpunk variation right through to the end, and usually with enough wit and craziness to freshen the mix. Then, there is Pamela, whose tight, disciplined performance deserves more respect than it will almost certainly get.
04/27/07
The element of high camp that makes for enjoyable 'good trash' isn't present. Bad movies like this often generate small cult followings, and that's about the size of audience the picture deserves.
01/01/00
It is, after all, a comic book come to life (it's based on the Dark Horse comic series) and doesn't pretend to be about anything more than that.
01/01/00
Barb Wire isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere isn't a scene that Anderson-Lee walks through that didn't grab my attention.
12/18/04
Its main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer.
04/27/07
Made with a wafer-thin stylishness that thinks dressing the Congressionals like storm troopers is creative, Barb Wire plods along, following one pro forma scene with the next.
02/14/01
Top CriticDon't bother.
09/10/02
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