Barb Wire (1996)
Storyline
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
Directors
Cast
Clint Howard, Tom Lister Jr., Temuera Morrison, Ai Wan, Xander Berkeley, Pamela Anderson, Udo Kier, Steve Railsback, Jack Noseworthy, Nils Allen Stewart, Victoria Rowell, Andre Rosey Brown, John Paxton, Salvator Xuereb, Patti Tippo, Shelly Desai, Nicholas Worth, Joey Sagal, Candace Kita, Jennifer Banko, Mark Collver, Dominiquie Vandenberg, Tina Cote, Rene Stahl
Trailer
Reviews
70
Washington Post
David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific.
70
Lee elevates herself from the lower echelon of mere international super-babedom to the loftier realm of pulp myth. She is "It" with an exclamation mark.
63
The filmmakers must have known they were not making a good movie, but they didn't use that as an excuse to be boring and lazy. Barb Wire has a high energy level, and a sense of deranged fun.
50
It's a comic book movie in the broadest sense of the term, and although it's neither as emotionally resonant as "The Crow" nor as surreally goofy as "Tank Girl," Barb Wire still manages to get you going, Anderson Lee fan or not.
40
Ought to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert.
Other Movies You Might Enjoy
Jul 27, Jul 2022DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
Dec 7, Dec 1945House of Dracula (1945)
Oct 19, Oct 2024Half Lives (2024)
Sep 29, Sep 202357 Seconds (2023)
Jan 1, Jan 1981Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
Jun 9, Jun 1995Congo (1995)
Jan 1, Jan 1985Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
Aug 13, Aug 2015Z for Zachariah (2015)