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"Barb Wire" was pretty transparently designed as a showcase for both Pamela Anderson's body (too "artificial" for my taste) and her newly-acquired martial arts skills (which, I must say, are quite remarkable). Other than that, it has nothing new to offer to the sci-fi/comic-book adventure genre, although it has a few (too few!) well-executed action sequences and a more professional look than thematically similar crap like "The Demolitionist". (**)

Pamela Anderson Lee will certainly never be mistaken for a talking pig, especially in the outfits she gets to wear in Barb Wire. Pamela has cascading blonde hair down to there, acres of cleavage and plenty of clingy leather getups cut up to here. If you get distracted and call Ms. Wire the dreaded "B" word, you may find yourself dealing with her nasty-tempered Rottweiler, Camille, a sidekick with bite. This highly anticipated comic-book action/adventure, starring the pinup star of Baywatch, lasted only a short time in theaters before going bust, so to speak. I'm sure the backers couldn't care less, as their investment was made back in advance by tremendous worldwide sales. Barb Wire was sold on the star's face and form long before there was a story concept or anything resembling a script. Good thing, too. Yes, the futuristic plot does bear some parallels to Casablanca, but the family resemblance is strictly skin-deep. Barb is a nightclub owner who helps an old flame, now a freedom fighter, and his wife escape from a corrupt police official and some neo-Nazi types. Of all the gin joints in the world, Axel had to walk into Barb's. Barb has just been hosed down while performing a torrid dance onstage and is feeling, well, charitable. The movie gets off to a pretty good start, with tongue well in cheek, but grows wearisome when it forgets to laugh at itself. The explosions, shoot-outs and chases are eventually numbing. Must say, however, I did love the death-by-spike-heel scene which comes early on. Steve Railsback, as the head meanie, Colonel Pryzer, comes across as Tommy Lee Jones-lite. Ms. Anderson Lee, as Barb the Buxom, is game, however, firing oversized weapons and kicking fanny without mussing her makeup. Too bad they couldn't afford some better wigs for her stunt doubles.

What do you really expect from a chick like Pamela Anderson..? That she´s performing character roles Meryl Streep is normally meant to play?!? In this film you get her usual qualities in a sufficient amount: Pam is pretty, Pam is sexy and she´s joking in a self-ironic humor for the whole film. So what do you want more?!? The opening sequence is great and Udo Kier, one of the most culty German actors next to the deceased Klaus Kinski is also in! Of course, if you expect a great film you certainly will be disappointed: the set decoration is pretty cheap and the plot is stolen from "Casablanca". Nevertheless "Barb Wire" is very entertaining and should be regarded as funny action trash with an attractive main actress - nothing more, nothing less! Just be glad that David Hasselhoff is not in!!! (6/10)

I have a weird obsession....to see every film on IMDB's infamous Bottom 100 List. "Barb Wire" is currently #44....and my 94th film on this list! However, after seeing it, I am not sure that it really deserves to be on the list. Sure, Pamela Anderson got the Razzie Award for her performance and it is a dopey film...but unlike most of the films on the list it was never intended to be a good movie. It simply was made as an excuse to dress (and undress) Anderson in very revealing clothes! It's not what anyone would consider a masterpiece, not was it ever intended as one....just a film to show as much of the lady as she was willing to show. And, in places (such as the opening credits) you see a lot.

"Barb Wire" is based on a comic book by Dark Horse, a company known for characters such as The Mask, Hellboy and comics like "Sin City". Again....none of these characters or films were ever intended to be carried by the Criterion Collection nor to be up for Academy Awards!

In this story, Anderson plays the title character, a combination stripper, hooker and assassin. And it's all set in a dystopian and dark world...of the USA in 2017! She strips, turns tricks and leaves bodies where ever she goes! She also, interestingly, sounds like she's doing a Steven Segal impersonation in the film...softly mumbling most of her lines. Bad enough for a Razzie? I wouldn't say so...but it's not like I'm in charge of giving out these infamous awards!

You can probably assume that I thought the film was pretty dumb....and you'd be right. But it's exactly what many folks wanted in 1996...a chance to see Anderson at least semi-naked. It delivers this....along with a dark, silly and not especially enjoyable story.

If you actually JUST want to see Ms. Anderson's body, skip to the special features on the disc and select 'SEXY OUTTAKES'....then you can skip the silly movie entirely and just see what most folks who watch the DVD really want anyway.



By the way, the opening song was "Word Up"....an extremely catchy R&B/hiphop song by Cameo. But, oddly, some other folks perform it...and it's not nearly as good as the original. I wonder why they didn't just pay for the rights to the original....I can't imagine it would have been THAT expensive.

Wow. Now this is not good. However, the movie sets its level right away, by having a stripping, dancing wet Barb (Anderson) already in the introduction of the movie. So, there you have what this movie is all about. Sure you get some violence, explosions and bad costumes as a bonus. Clearly, there is no relevant story in the movie, all revolves around (Barb) to show her off in different ways. The mentioned costumes are almost offending to the audience. Whoever responsible for them clearly did not work very hard. Barb competes with herself to wear some leather-thing that shows off as much as possible, but actually must be considered well dressed as compared to other ladies. The villains wear something that bear a striking resemblance to nazi-uniforms. Well sure, we know who's the bad guys, thank you. And some other people wear broken calculators and other piece of machinery that you'll find in a scrap-heap as hats, and are automatically dressed up like guys from the future. If it was this easy to make a good movie, I could have made it myself. Fortunately it is not, and Barb Wire is not a good movie.

But, and this is a mysterious but, I actually didn't get bored out of my mind and switched off. The movie actually, in some way, had some small piece of entertainment value throughout that made me stay. And that something, whatever it was, is what ultimately saves the movie from being complete junk.

So, if you have absolutely nothing else to do, you may want to watch this one, once. You may get some ideas how to (or not to) dress for the next masquerade.

3/10

This movie is not a failure, because the movie makers obviously haven´t tried to make anything else than a mindless flick that lets Pamela Anderson show her cleavage. They have succeeded.

"Barb Wire" (Pamela Anderson) is a nightclub owner in a futuristic America where a civil war has broken out between two distinct factions. The first is known as the "Congressional Directoret" and the second as the "Resistance". Now, as it so happens Barb Wire also moonlights as a mercenary who has little sympathy for either side and operates in the only free city left which is known as "Steel Harbor". However, when a former government scientist named "Dr. Corina Devonshire" (Victoria Rowell) escapes from the Congressional Directoret and arrives in Steel Harbor carrying some special contact lenses worth $2 million-along with Barb Wire's former lover named "Axel Hood" (Temuera Morrison)-Barb Wire becomes indirectly involved. And that spells bad news for whichever side she's not on. Anyway, rather than reveal the rest of the details and possibly spoil the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this movie was widely panned by the critics when it first came out. As a matter of fact, Pamela Anderson received several Razzie Awards for her performance which included "Worst New Star" and "Worst Actress". Other Razzie Awards for the film included "Worst Picture" along with being nominated for "Worst Screenplay" and "Worst Original Song". So judging from these awards and nominations one would think that this was an extremely bad movie. However, rather than simply going with the proverbial crowd I happen to have my own opinion which is quite different. First, I didn't think her performance was that bad. As a matter of fact I kind of enjoyed it. Not only that but I have seen a lot worse movies than this particular one. Now, that's not to say that this film was great by any means because it clearly wasn't. But it was hardly the worst movie for that year. Nowhere close. Likewise, although I didn't especially care for the performance of Temuera Morrison I thought the performance of Udo Kier (as "Curly") was actually quite good. Anyway, there you have it. Again, while "Barb Wire" may not be a great film I didn't think it was necessarily that bad either. I rate it as average.

Pamela Anderson's body surely looks great (although it may be 90% silicone and fiberglass), and she surely is very "flexible" (wich might have come in handy in porn movies, recommendations are welcome)... but this movie has only that... when watching the movie, everybody unifies with the character named Charlie (Barb's brother)... just because he's blind and he's got the luck to miss out part of the movie. Pamela Anderson has an annoying monotone story-telling voice, and the well known consistent-permanented-hairstyle, as well as the disability to truly act (only the little screams and moans sound natural, don't they) and the taste for choosing to play in a story as ridiculous as this one... I watched the movie because i saw a report on TV about classic movie-heroines, mostly created by comics (DC Comics for example made Catwoman after they made Batman, and many heroines were created in the series of another male hero in this way)... and i got curious, I was never suspecting SUCH a great disappointment... it must have been the third worst movie I ever saw (1st=Meet Joe Black ; 2nd=Cast Away) My advice: Watch the striptease at the beginning and then go look for another movie!

Let's recap on this flim's storyline. A fascist government is looking for a scientist and spouse, who's working for resistance takes shelter in a bar. Under management by the spouse's ex lover and a corrupted cop, now where did I heard that before? Oh yeah, Casablanca. You mean to tell me that one of the greatest films get completely copied, and no one see the connection?

It's worth watching purely for the cringe factor.

The acting is wooden. The story line is hardly existent, and the script writing is pretty poor too.

Let's face it, Pam can't act. The number of cuts (with associated continuity errors) is testament to the number of takes it took to do some scenes. Even just the act of turning over a table seems beyond her and needs to be pieced together from multiple takes.

Given the number of takes they had to do they really should have employed a human to manage continuity, rather than the chimpanzee they seem to have had doing the job. If sitting in the corner throwing their poo at passers by can be called "doing the job".

And at least they could have picked a stunt double who at least looks vaguely like Pam. The one they chose barely fills the bodice Pam wears, and looks like a man to boot. I mean, Pam's breasts spill over the top of her bodice. Her stunt double has noticeable gaps where flesh (or rather silicone) should be.

Yes you read that right. Nine!! Oh it's B-grade. Cheesy. And so much fun. It's more than the 3 stars some give it. Pamela does MUCH more than show some cleavage. She even does many of her own stunts. Back when stunts were dangerous too. You can do FAR worse than this film. Especially lately.

Although based in comic book series, the "Barb Wire" movie intends to be a remake o classical "Casablanca". It keeps the core elements of the 40's film, but adapts it to a distopic sci-fi action futuristic movie. Pamela Anderson plays Barb, a role similar to Bogart's Rick. The gender of the love affair from the past and of the third part of the love triangle have also been changed. The fictional town of Steel Harbor in the United States replaces Casablanca and the story is held during a futuristic Second Civil War rather than in the beginning of World War II. Both protagonists own a bar/nightclub, but Barb Wire is also a bounty huntress. As this remake is a sci-fi film, special contact lenses that cheat retinal scans substitute the letters of transit kept with Rick. As predictable, acting is worse in this remake, which has much more action. Off course "Casablanca" is much better, but surprisingly "Barb Wire" is not bad, in spite of the bad critics it has received.

I didn't exactly have high expectations. I recall well when 'Barb Wire' was first released, and it gave the impression of being little more than somewhat exploitative schlock capitalizing on Pamela Anderson's body. The reputation it seems to have earned rather affirms that impression. Apart from a couple unexpected names in the cast (Udo Kier, Clint Howard), no one especially stuck out as a possible savior. Why, this remains the only feature film of director David Hogan, whose work otherwise seems to strictly have been in music videos. On the other hand, screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer is a familiar and welcome name; he's been behind a few quite excellent features. Now that I've watched this rather infamous slice of cinema for myself, color me surprised - I wouldn't go so far as to say it's good, but it's not all bad, honestly.

While the presentation is very much a sci-fi action flick, the narrative, its characters, and even some of the less ham-handed dialogue in no small part reflect a neo-noir. I could almost imagine the bare bones of the screenplay serving a different kind of story, were it conceived 40-50 years earlier. To be sure, there are a lot of indelicacies in the writing - and many more in Hogan's direction, which in its own dire inelegance accentuates the problems with Pfarrer's contribution. Yet for all the garish gawkiness that pervades the feature, 'Barb Wire' is penned fairly deftly. Scenes are written well, and though I'm no fan of Hogan's eye as a director, nor his guiding hand, the same scenes are broadly ably executed, too. The narrative, characters, and dialogue, already mentioned as a relative anachronism by film industry standards, are stronger than I possibly could have expected. Far from perfect, of course, but my assumptions were "rock bottom," so every little bit counts for something.

The marketing, costume design, and introduction of Anderson's title character portend a notably sleazy genre romp, so I was almost taken aback by how little the actress' physique is actually emphasized in the feature. It's refreshing, frankly: This isn't so much a "look at the scantily-clad lady!" action flick, as it is an action flick that just happens to star a woman famed for her stature. Her acting is another question, though. Whether it's from lack of ability, a series of bad days on set, or just the tawdry guiding hand of Hogan, there are few instances herein where her delivery and comportment is convincing. Or is it just that the character of Barb Wire is supposed to be calm, cool and collected? If so, that's definitely not how it came across. Other performances in the film similarly struggle with authenticity, though I think for the most part the supporting cast comes out looking better than Anderson does.

There's no mistaking that 'Barb Wire' is also distinctly over the top, probably too much so for its own good. Yet to my amazement, the biggest problem here isn't bombastic action, ham-handed dialogue or acting, or generally poor film-making - but just a lack of a meaningfully distinguishing element. Yes, all the other issues further weigh it down, but the movie above all just possesses nothing to really set it apart, or make it an essential experience. It's not bad, but when you can watch other action pictures with fewer weaknesses, there's no particular reason to seek this one out, save perhaps for curiosity. Oddly, given the low regard for the title at large, to simply call it unremarkable nearly feels like a compliment.

Though not exactly riveting, I'm glad I sat to watch this - why not, after all? In the very least, I don't totally regret it, which alone says much. I can't really imagine recommending this, and to sit for it should likely only ever be a question of inquisitiveness, not active interest. Yet the fact remains that I plainly don't think 'Barb Wire' is half as awful as its reception would suggest. It's not specifically deserving of your time, but if you enjoy action movies, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes.

I'm a fan of the comic book series, Barb Wire (or was, until its cancellation). And I'm afraid I have mixed feelings about the movie. It certainly isn't true to the comic. Barb isn't a tough as nails, but guided by her morals woman. She's a cold blooded killer for hire, in this one. Still, it's difficult not to like Pam Anderson's role, if only because of her being sexy. There is a touch of humor in her campy portrayal. It's not spectacular acting, but it's fun. Pamela also resembles the comic book Barb to an uncanny degree, and the supporting cast is wonderfully cartoony. The story isn't well written, but it gives the cute one liners ("Don't... call me babe"), and action sequences, which are all fun to watch. I realize that it isn't high art, but this movie just has a level of silliness and seriousness that's hard not to like. The music, story, and dialogue all give the movie its cheesiness, and in some way, it's made to be entertaining.

Pam is extremely sexy in this movie, and great to watch. She has a scowl all the time, and is dressed to kill in low cut, tight outfits. Sadly, we don't get that much nudity (which alone could have carried the movie). The scenes where there is some, it's pretty clear, and we get a good look at Pamela's incredible body, and the atmosphere and her poses are always very sexy. But there isn't enough of this. It's a fun blend of action, silly dialogue, nudity, and... well Pamela Anderson. Go rent it. It's not a great movie, but it's not a terrible one, and one that's a heck of a good time. NOTE: I suggest the unrated version. It contains more nudity (there isn't that much to begin with) and a ten minutes of footage at the end with Pamela nude in a bathtub, which is really great.

I would've loved to see the pitch session for Barb Wire. After getting through the whole, "it's a vehicle for Pamela Anderson Lee, Babewatch Babe, though we don't call her Babe, she's a kick-ass bounty hunter who runs a bar and does this and that and there's a lot of explosions and action and kills and more explosions, yada yada yada," they had to try and explain the actual story. What did they come up with? Apparently, not so much the comic book story (from what I've heard the comic book is about, which isn't much), but, well... Casablanca? Yes, Casablanca, at least to a great degree. It's hard not to see one of the most 'what-the-huh?' combinations of low-art with high-art since Strange Brew's story came right out of Hamlet. There's even Clint Howard as Peter Lorre and some character named "Fatso" who plays Sidney Greenstreet! One things for sure, folks, Pam Anderson is NO Humphrey Bogart (we all know who's were real and spectacular after all).

But I digress, this is a pretty stupid movie, made on the cheap all at the expense of men everywhere who can't get enough of the overly stacked blonde bubble of hot that is Pam Anderson (Lee at the time), who is pretty much either naked (and when so either in an overlong dance sequence in partial nudity, or wrapped conviniently in bubbles, or in leather, more so the latter) and spouts poorly written dialog like a pro. This is probably both a compliment and an insult; only someone like Anderson, who is some nice, Heavy Metal style eye candy but not that much of an actress, could pull off this script like she does, which features special contact lenses as the MacGuffin and a transport of some girl across the lines of some Nazi outback law enforcement agency out to hunt her like dogs. Did I mention there are explosions and stuff? They're cool, I guess... Not much else here, folks, unless you're Beavis and Butt-head. That being said, for a Beavis and Butt-head favorite, it's not the worst in the bin.

Barb Wire (1996) is a movie I watched for the first time in a long time recently on Tubi. The storyline follows a struggling night club owner who is also a bounty hunter. Her life gets complicated when her wanted ex-boyfriend arrives back at her club bringing unnecessary attention to her life by the local police.

This movie is directed by David Hogan (Most Wanted) in his directorial debut and stars Pamela Anderson (Scream 3), Tony Bill (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure), Clint Howard (Apollo 13), Tom Lister Jr. (Friday) and Jennifer Banko (Friday the 13th Part VII).

The opening credits is the best part of the entire movie. It may be better just to watch that portion for 90 minutes instead of the actual film. The settings, attire and backdrop for this movie actually wasn't that bad. The costumes and wigs are great and bad at the same time. The soundtrack isn't that bad either. The movie is purposely bad and cheesy. The ending scene with the grenade is really good as are some other action scenes.

Overall this is a bad movie this is worth watching. I would score this a 3/10 and recommend seeing this once.

I almost find myself compelled to comment on this movie although i vowed to myself to ban it entirely from my memory after having watched it. However I think that this movie is so awful and terrifyingly uninteresting that I must warn all movie watchers from wasting 90 minutes or so of their valuable time. Essentially this movie is Baywatch revisited in cyberpunk. Like Baywatch there's no story, no character development, poor direction, poor...well everything. And just like Baywatch it focuses on Pam Anderson's breasts for the majority of the film. I would only suggest this movie if you're an adolescent admirer of movies which interchange a plot for a bra.

What a wreck...

If I could describe this film in short: one minute of the movie focused on Pamela's boobs, and then the rest of the movie consists in a group of cheesy B-actors defecating on "Casablanca" . This movie is SO BAD and SO badly acted, even in the boring and over exploited cyberpunk genre.

The actors are terrible, the screenplay is cheesy (even for a cyberpunk), and the EVERY character in this movie has the word "cliché" tattooed in his forehead.

Do yourself a favor and don't watch this.

This ''movie'' is really bad. It is just a pathetic excuse to watch Pamela Anderson Lee in several nude-scenes (then specially the 10 minutes opening scene). The movie is filled with boring action, stupid dialogues and silly comments like ''Don't call me Babe''.

Barb Wire isn't the worst movie of 1996(quite), Bio-Dome and Ed are worse, but it is a terrible movie with its only redeeming asset Pamela Anderson's cleavage. Anderson is very sexy and does better than expected in the action sequences, but the way she delivers her lines just for me amplifies her limitations as an actress. And the rest of the acting ranges to pretty poor to non-existent. The action sequences are in a way efficiently performed but choreographed in a generic way and some of the editing feels sloppy. I liked how catchy and how upbeat the soundtrack was but it got a bit too loud and too much after a while, the script is cheesy and weak and the story is so thin you have to watch closely to see if there is a story, and I have no better news about the direction. Overall, a terrible movie. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This show doesn't need to be any different than it is. The over the top craziness of the lines and the characters are more than enough entertainment for anyone. People who have critiqued this expecting a Bruce Willis type of action adventure just don't understand what this is about or where the entertainment factor lies in this show.

As far as action adventure goes, the stunts and the pace of the movie are great! It is full on fun and exciting. But it is not some macho style, take Barb Wire seriously as an action adventure. It actually is really cool and when people get over their judgement of Pamela Anderson and see the movie for what it is... light hearted entertainment... then they might enjoy it as much as I do. But then again, boobs seem to make men upset. They want to see boobs on someone that they think they can maybe imagine themselves with. And Barb Wire is not that woman. Her attitude doesn't lend itself to making men feel like they could rush in and save her.

Picture this: a Pamela Anderson science fiction double bill on television. I mean, you'd just HAVE to watch it, wouldn't you? Just to see how bad it was.

1995's Naked Souls kept making me look for the "TV Movie" credit that wasn't there. A cheap and exploitative "erotic thriller" where Pammie exposes her left breast within the first three minutes of the movie. Anderson is an artist, specialising in plaster-casting nude women, rubbing mixture over their breasts while they proclaim "it feels kinda sexy". Her boyfriend, decently played by Brian Krause, is studying brain wave patterns and accidentally crosses his own with that of a serial killer. It's all very silly and derivative, also involving a Faustian pact with a mysterious benefactor. What disturbs is that all the victims of the killer are nude women – I mean, who gets into a swimming pool naked? – meaning the film uses sexual violence as titillation. Dean Stockwell, in a minor role, is wasted in stuff like this.

If Anderson's role in the predictable Naked Souls was peripheral (and also completely irrelevant to the plot), then Barb Wire sees her take over the screen. Released the following year, this saw the now Pamela Anderson Lee as the titular character, a Barbarella of the 90s. Of course she can't act – she only manages one expression throughout the whole two hours – but her assured performance is wonderful here. While it's easy to lump both these films together as trash entertainment, Barb Wire is so much more than that. A vibrant, witty and well-directed cartoon for the screen, its constant energy is a delight. What really appeals is in seeing the sheer amount of cinema pastiches the film rigs up. Batman, Never Say Never Again and even The A-Team are all parodied. But most significantly, it shares multiple plot similarities with Casablanca, and I honestly suspect that this was intentional. Or would its 2017 planes really be so old-fashioned? Barb is a neutral bar owner during a war by day (ring a bell?) a vixen for hire by night. The landscape she occupies is an excitingly neon world of legalised prostitution, engineered diseases and sophisticated contact lenses.

Maybe the opening moments – Anderson Lee exposing her bare nipples while water washes over them to a baying crowd – are tacky and unnecessary. The scenes that follow also contain a torture sequence that is not only misguided in its attempt to arouse but also transparent in its purpose for expository dialogue. Yet beyond those first few scenes we have an action movie that contains above-average scripting for the genre, and some fun moments. It's amusing to try and guess whether Pam knew she was being kitsch or whether she genuinely believed she was giving a good performance. But whatever the answer, it still gets a laugh when a rowdy customer finds his genitals in the mouth of her rabid Rottweiler. "Sit", she tells the dog, much to the drunk's displeasure. "Now, you don't want to see her roll over, do you?"

All the criticisms that can be made against this film – that it's badly acted, appallingly scripted, dumb and sexist (even though none of them are 100% true anyway) – can be disputed by the fact that it's SUPPOSED to be badly acted, appallingly scripted, dumb and sexist. This is a film that never pretends to be anything other than a pumped-up, camp and downright silly movie. What's more, it succeeds in being more entertaining and convincing than many of the "straight" versions of the same format, with particular note drawn to it's fight scenes. They may be excessive and lack maturity, but they're shot beautifully and are fun to watch. I'm not a huge fan of action pictures, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. If you want a film that possesses depth and integrity, then see something else. If you want a lovably stupid movie, with Pamela Anderson sticking out her little finger as she burns rubber on a motorbike, then watch this. Tremendous fun.