Barb Wire: Critic Reviews

The irony of this style, with its high-swank grunge clutter, is that it's too dissociated to have coherence even as pop; we're always aware that we're watching sets being photographed.

Barb Wire isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor.

The movie is predominantly a sexual tease, albeit one without appreciably more nudity than you can see in 1968's Barbarella.

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.

Director David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills.

There's as much sheer work in this film as in films 10 times as good -- which is both encouraging and depressing, I suppose.

Its main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer.

his 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.

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.

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.

...a consistently inept and astonishingly dull actioner...

We 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.

The film's haphazardly edited, lacks narrative clout, and rambles on to a ludicrously extended conclusion.

There isn't a scene that Anderson-Lee walks through that didn't grab my attention.

The most inane and inept hootfest (or, for that matter, hooterfest) to hit the big screen since Showgirls.

After a while [the] novelty wears off.

Don't bother.