Leofwine_draca BARB WIRE is a much derided comic book-style sci-fi action movie featuring the one and only Pamela Anderson in the lead role. She plays the titular character in what is apparently a loose remake of CASABLANCA, set in the future and with the main character an assassin facing off against an evil fascist regime. I'd not got around to watching this film for obvious reasons. Even as a teenage boy I didn't like Anderson, finding everything about her fake. Her non-acting in this film is really excruciating and I fully believe that had a proper actress been cast in the lead role this might have been a decent little B-movie. Heck, even Angelina Jolie circa CYBORG 2 might have been up to the job.What's surprising about this film is that the director's actually pretty good, which from a former music video director comes as a welcome relief. The action sequences feature relatively poor choreography but there's a fast pace and the editing isn't half bad. I was also surprised at just how many familiar faces feature in support. Temuera Morrison, Nicholas Worth, Tommy Tiny Lister, Jack Noseworthy, Clint Howard, and Xander Berkeley are all in this, with Steve Railsback presiding over things as the master villain; playing spot the actor is fun in itself. Most of the cheapjack action is saved for the climax, which homages MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR before finishing with a cheesy crane set-piece.

Bob Greenwade I was bored one evening, and hunted through the movies available for free on Comcast On Demand. One was this film, which had intrigued me a bit when it was on originally.It was just barely interesting enough to keep me watching until the end.Yes, as has been said many times, the story is lifted almost directly from Casablanca, and otherwise adjusted to fit the characters from the Dark Horse comic. Many reviewers at the time of the film's release saw it as a ripoff, but to me it read more like an homage.This was pretty much the extent to which director David Hogan made good decisions in this. Lighting apparently meant to be moody ended up only muddling the action. The sound mixing was awful (at least, for TV), and much of Pamela Anderson's dialogue was unintelligible. Any opportunity to flash Pam's breasts was seized upon.At that, the writing is pretty weak too. Maybe it was because of the sound problem, but I was twenty minutes into the film before I was sure that the plot had actually started. How the writers did an homage to "Casablanca" while keeping the plot so paper-thin is amazing.Also, most of the acting seems quite mechanical. Pam was highly criticized over this at the time, but I've seen better from her. For that matter, Victoria Rowell seemed quite one-note as well, and I know she has some serious acting chops from her years on "Diagnosis Murder." Thus, I suspect that the problem was not in the performers but in the director and the script. Only Jack Noseworthy (Charlie), Jennifer Bank (Spike), and to a lesser extent Clint Howard (Schmitz) deliver really good performances.I do give high marks to the stunt department of this film, though; the fight scenes were for the most part nicely choreographed and well performed. Some of the action late in the film failed to deliver in that regard, but that seemed more an editing problem than anything the stunt people would have had to do with.The soundtrack, though not generally my preferred style of music, was also well done and fit the setting and action appropriately.Overall I'd say this movie is worth seeing -- once and only once, provided you aren't actually paying any money for it that you aren't already spending.

Maziun Well , at least when the movie came up . Now barely anyone remembers it . It's not strange since this "magical" movie had achieved 2 unusual things : a) the comic book series on which the movie was based died shortly after the movie premiere and b) the producers shortly after the premiere of this "masterpiece" OFFICIALLY announced that there won't be a sequel. Wow . I don't remember anything similar in my life . Even "Batman and Robin' didn't killed the Batman comic books (yes , I know that is a MUCH stronger franchise than Barbwire franchise , but "B&R" did have THAT strength to kill anything associated with it). And today we live in an era where even "Alvin and chipmunks" have sequels. The movie is based on a comic book I've never read or even heard of . Not that I regret it . Some comic books are hard to stand while you read them and perhaps even unadaptable ("Spawn" anyone ?). I believe this is a perfect example.I have a theory that from time to time Hollywood makes a movie that is such a compilation of everything bad in American cinema (style over substance , kitsch , stupidity , bad taste , cheap at heart) that it has a power of nuclear bomb which destroys everything in it's range . "Barbwire" isn't really a movie made with BAD TASTE , it's more like a movie made with NO TASTE .The ideal symbol of no taste is the star of "Barbwire" itself – Pamela Anderson . There is a scene here where she walks down a corridor . You see her breasts first . Almost ONLY her breasts . You will have to wait a few seconds before the rest of Anderson's body (including her face) will show up . I mean seriously – those breasts are walking by themselves. I can't believe somebody so UGLY was considered to be a sex symbol of the 90's . Maybe people deep down are very primitive like caveman ? Sure , it's good when a woman has more big than small breasts , but not TOO BIG . Otherwise she becomes a parody of herself. Anyway , Anderson was considered sexy and someone thought that big boobs will be enough to make a good or at least commercially successful movie. If you're a fan of Anderson's body you will be probably happy . She wears tight clothes and you can see her boobs few times. As for her acting skills – well she's better than Steven Seagal , but that's hardly accomplishment. The movie is pretty much a remake of "Casablanca" only set in post apocalyptic future. It's kinda interesting how you could take one of the best screenplays in the world and f*** everything that was perfect in the original movie. I guess that what you get when you replace Bogart with boobs. Visually this movie rips off "Batman" and "Mad Max". There is no interesting character and you couldn't care less what happens in the movie. A movie scene where half naked woman kills a guy with stiletto pretty much defines what this whole movie is all about. While watching a bad movie I often think "A porn version of this movie would be much better". Funny thing – I don't think that even as a porn movie "Barbwire" would be watchable.I give it 1/10.

disdressed12 and don't watch this movie either,unless you're really desperate for something to do.but trust me,you could always find something better to do.i mean wow,this was not good.i managed to get to the forty four minute mark before giving up and shutting it down.there's just no coherent plot here,and no real acting of any kind involved.plus,the music was awful,although that's just personal preference.the opening scene sets the bar pretty low and it just gets worse from there.for some strange reason,Xander Berkeley(who's a quality actor)decided to appear in this mess.oh,well,everybody is entitled to a bad movie once in a while.anyway,for me, because it's not the worse movie i've seen,Barb Wire is a 3/10