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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... 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 grip of either government troops or rebel fighters. It is also home to blonde bombshell Barb Wire, a leather-clad, pistol packin', cycle-ridin' bounty hunter, who ALWAYS gets her man. Barb becomes enmeshed in a "Casablanca"-esque plot, involving resistance fighters, wicked federal agents, and a very special pair of contact lenses that allow the user to avoid detection by the feds. In between shootouts, explosions and chases, Barb becomes the owner of the coveted lenses. Will she use them to help the rebels? Or sell them to pay for her blind brother's operation? [More]
Starring: Pamela Anderson Lee, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Xander Berkeley
Starring: Pamela Anderson Lee, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Xander Berkeley, Jack Noseworthy, Udo Kier, Andre Brown, Clint Howard, Steve Railsback, Jennifer Banko
Director: David Hogan
Director: David Hogan
Story: Ilene Chaiken
Screenwriter: Chuck Pfarrer
Producer: Todd Moyer, Mike Richardson, Brad Wyman
Composer: Michel Colombier
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Reviews for Barb Wire
Buxom babes, big explosions, and black leather. Hey, pal, what more do you want?
The focus remains on Lee throughout, and (except for one flashback scene, in which we see the young, compassionate woman she once was) she pretty much delivers.
There's as much sheer work in this film as in films 10 times as good -- which is both encouraging and depressing, I suppose.
The whole film is nothing more than just a tease, not worth the bother.
There isn't a scene that Anderson-Lee walks through that didn't grab my attention.
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.
One of those outrageous, over-the-top comic book style movies, and as such, it's kinda fun.
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.
The past two years have been Bad Movie manna for fans of deliriously cheesy sci-fi thrillers set in the near future.
Barb Wire isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor.
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