It's easy to laugh at a failure: let's check why it happened instead... That movie was never intended to be a masterpiece, but a honest and camp entertainment. In those years, it was still normal to produce films with a low budget, so they did it: a star (remember, there weren't reality show then), a story (based on comics), and a production team (related to Polygram, I suppose) . What went wrong? First of all, it needed more money, for the locations, the costumes and everything you have to buy to put it in a movie. The director is a music clip director, so he lacked experience, and you can really tell! The script is not bad even if the screenwriter did better elsewhere. The cast is ok, Udo is great and Pamela played quite good (I mean... it isn't Shakespeare, but she works) . A great problem is sexyness: you have got a sexbomb but you can't pass certain limits; it is obviously a fatal error, you must dare sometimes, but the worst is that Pam is often not at all sexy, on the contrary almost ridiculous (like H. Berry in Catwoman, not like M. Pfeiffer in Batman returns). Think about how the director of X-Men "loved" and enhanced Mystica, can you see what I mean?! Besides, in those years music was still important in an action movie, but here it's boring and annoying (and very cheap). However, I still watch Barbwire, sometimes, because it isn't boring like a 400.000.000 dollars blockbuster for dummies and when you watch it you can think how it could be, on the contrary those big movies are (almost) always the same...

May 4, 2016I remember Pamela Anderson when she was on the TV show "Baywatch." I don't remember if she was one of the main characters on the show but she is in "Barb Wire" and it's a pathetic excuse for Pamela's huge boobs and wedged ass in almost every shot.It's about a hot to trot bounty hunter, Barbera Wire (Pamela Anderson), who runs a bar called Hammerhead in "Steel Harbor," set during the "Second American Civil War." At night time, she is a mercenary for extra cash. She gets wind that, Chief of Police Willis (Xander Berkeley) is looking for a fugitive, Dr. Corrina Devonshire (Victoria Rowell) who has information about a biological weapon being developed by a corrupt, Colonel Pryzer (Steve Railsback). Her former lover, Axel (Temuera Morrison) shows up at the bar asking Barb to help him and the Dr. find a pair of special contact lenses that will allow Corrina to evade into Canada so she can blow the whistle on the Colonel. Everything goes wrong and Barb swings into action to save the day.I had a real hard time following this film and I actually forget the first act when the second act kicked in. It's awfully confusing and jumps from more things that it can't handle. It feels like they took a bunch of ideas and just jammed them into the picture to attempt to tell a story and it doesn't work. I had to go back and read, just to remember what happen in the first act and to attempt to figure out what the plot was. It opens with Barb stripping on a pole while she is being sprayed in slow motion to the opening credits. This should come as no surprise for an opening.There are a lot of similarities here to the 1942 Classic "Casablanca." It takes place in the year 2017 where the city is in the middle of a war and there is something about HIV in there that is used to wipe something out. Anyway, Barb lives in the last free city on earth and her headquarters for all her business is the nightclub. This is one of the major locations in the film. I also discovered that Barb is inspired by a comic book character. I should have known that just from looking at the release poster. Barb is suited up in leather and rides a motorcycle in the first act where she poses as a hooker and attempts to trick some loser into a good time to gain access so she can rescue a hostage only to shoot her way out of the apartment building. There are a lot of science-fiction looking gadgets and gizmos in the film that look cheap on top of the production. Everything looks colored in Grey and a blurry sky is a horrible backdrop for the post-apocalyptic setting.Most of the second act is Pamela showing herself off because of who she is. She lays in a tub that would have to be made of glass and when she gets up to get a towel all the bubbles are magically covering up her parts. Just before she manages to put a robe on, she swings it open in full view of the camera like this is supposed to mean something. Pamela is not the greatest actress and comes off as eye candy that gets tiring when everything that is happening is making you scratch your head. She comes off as trying to hard to be this bad-girl mercenary that everyone is supposed to know. I will say this, compared to the other actors in the film, Pamela is the one that attempts to work. She's not a terrible actress, the filmmakers just put her in a movie because of her boobs and didn't know what to do with anything else.The other actors are so bad, it makes you wonder how they got hired. Anyway, the plot doesn't really give us a detail about this "war" because it's too busy focusing on several other subplots to become too crowded. One of the characters in this picture is a big fat black stereotype as he is always eating Chicken, not to mention offensive, that is wedged in the shovel of a caterpillar tractor called, Big Fatso (Andre Rosey Brown). He shows up just to become a backstabber before being blown to hell with a grenade. None of the characters matter in the picture and we feel nothing for them.Apparently, Barb is the key to solving the whole situation that is going on but it mentions it and then never brings it up again. in favor of something stupid happening in the background. The screenplay was written by two people, Chuck Pfarrer who is actually a former U.S. Navy Seal and the other one is, Ilene Chaiken. Neither of them can write a screenplay and it shows. Anyway, the ending is what you would expect and the whole movie comes to a close. I should have known what this picture was going into it but I also thought there was no way it could be good and I was right.

Thus far in mainstream comic book related movies, only one female antihero has turned out having very little complaints and that's Black Widow from Marvel's The Avengers (2012). Then again, she also has not had any solo film but she has appeared in several films prior and so far, there really hasn't been an uproar over Scarlett Johansson's portrayal as the deadly assassin. Beyond this character however, movie studios have not been able to pinpoint the proper approach to making a worthy female heroine film. There have been several attempts, but so far none have proved to be lucrative. For Dark Horse Entertainment, which was no stranger to their comic books being adapted to film took more than one wack at making a feminine hero focused film. The year before, they also helped surface British Comic, Tank Girl (1995), which also flopped. Then came this, which by many consider being one of the worst comic book films. As an overall film, it's not even near decent but it isn't the worst.The setting takes place in 2018 where (like many other futures are described) the next all out war broke out. This time being called the "second civil war"; there's only one place among the whole land where people can live free without the strong eye of government looking over them. However even there, no one is safe. After learning a deadly secret, Dr. Cora (Victoria Rowell) and her husband Axel (Temuera Morrison) attempt to flee the country to Canada but are met with endless setbacks. It is at this point they look to find the only person who can help them escape, a local bar owner / bounty hunter known as Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson). As a story, not all of it is passe but a good portion of it is overused elements seen from multiple other films about dystopic futures. Plus cutting it off close to 2020 shot itself in the foot looking at it now. The writing for this screenplay was carried by Chuck Pfarrer (Darkman (1990) & Hard Target (1993)) and Ilene Chaiken (as her first work) did take care of properly giving the main characters' their back story but there are other parts that don't work.A subtle flaw is quick changes in character motivations. At one time in the film a character will have a certain opinion. Then, later on in the film they will declare the opposite opinion with no reasoning. That's a bit frustrating when trying to understand a character. Another matter of contention is convenient contrivances. If something is out of reach for an individual and then later on it is revealed to the viewers that they acquired it (again, with no reason how), it gets frustrating. Almost like the film is saying, "they're just that good, no sense in showing how they did it". The last poorly written component to this film is main villain Colonel Pryzer (Steve Railsback). Besides just being callous to everyone he meets, Pryzer is a very generic antagonist dressed in Nazi garb. It's nothing to point out or even worth remembering about because his character is so two dimensional. Surprisingly, the rest of the cast in some ways makes up for it. Local law enforcement Alexander Willis (Xander Berkeley) tries to add some humor to the situation as well as Charlie (Jack Noseworthy).There's also guest appearances from character actors Andre Rosey Brown (as a more eccentric villain than Pryzer), Nicholas Worth, Clint Howard, Udo Kier and Nils Allen Stewart. The relationship between Axel, Dr. Cora and Barb Wire isn't the most believable but it isn't unlikable either. Actually, although Pamela Anderson speaks many of her lines in monotone, some of her quips are funny to hear. When she curses though, the viewer will be able to tell she's not acting material. Then again, if there's one thing Anderson nails, it's her figure of Barb Wire. Of all obvious reasons to pick her, what else? Of course, another curvaceous female could've been cast but let's deal with what's here. Plus, they got the costume down pat and it sure looks good on Anderson. Surprisingly Anderson can even handle the action sequences quite well. Yes, the fact that she also had stunt doubles is understandable but not truly noticeable which is required because viewers should not be able to tell.Cinematography was shot by Rick Bota for this movie. Most of the time the camera-work is acceptable for the action scenes and dialog. The only areas where it fails to feel compelling in the story is in its tracking shots. This was specifically evident either when it was filmed in the bar that Barb Wire owned or outside in garbage dump like settings. Since the story takes place in a chaotic dystopic future, the use of dusty, beige colored, and dune infested backdrops is the ultimate cliché for this setting. At least try to make it look different than what's been normally used. It's just been seen too many times. Lastly the musical score was arranged by French composer Michel Colombier. For this round, his composition sounds a bit like Gary Chang's score from Death Warrant (1990) using occasional steel drums. However, a lot of his music is absent and is replaced by hard rock which I guess is appropriate but the sound gets very cluttered because of it and that doesn't help.Many people say it's one of the worst comic books put to film. It certainly doesn't have the most competent of storytelling (which includes the contrivances & clichés) and not every character stands out like they should. Pamela Anderson also isn't acting material but she actually gives the viewing a "so bad it's good" experience. The action does entertain and some of the other supporting cast members do help make it at least average.

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