Barb Wire
Tags: avant garde, murder, cult, flashback, revenge, sci-fi

Plot synopsis:
The plot of the film is loosely based on the plot of Casablanca. Barb Wire is set in 2017 during the "Second American Civil War," rather than World War II. Many of the roles had their gender switched.
Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor — "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the civil war — and she brings in extra cash working as a mercenary and bounty hunter. Chief of Police Willis (Xander Berkeley) raids her club. Willis's target is fugitive Dr. Corrina "Cora D" Devonshire (Victoria Rowell), a former government scientist with information about a bioweapon being developed by her former superior, Colonel Pryzer (Steve Railsback) of the Congressional Directorate. Dr. Devonshire hopes to escape to Canada in order to make this information public.
Devonshire later turns up at the Hammerhead. She is accompanied by Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), a "freedom fighter" whom Barb had known and loved at the outbreak of the war, but the two were separated during the conflict. Axel is trying to help Cora get to Canada. They are trying to find a contraband pair of contact lenses that will allow Cora to evade the retinal scan at the Steel Harbor airport. The lenses pass through the hands of several lowlifes before also ending up at Barb's nightclub.
Rather than give the lenses to Cora and Axel, Barb makes a deal with "Big Fatso" (Andre Rosey Brown), the leader of a junkyard gang: Fatso wants the lenses, which are worth a fortune on the black market, and Barb wants a million dollars and an armed escort to the airport, where she plans to get on the plane to Canada. But Fatso double-crosses Barb; when Barb, Axel, and Cora show up at the junkyard to make the swap, Colonel Pryzer and his storm troopers are also there, along with Chief of Police Willis. Willis makes a show of arresting Barb and Cora, but instead of putting handcuffs on Barb, he slips her a hand grenade. Barb uses the grenade to kill Fatso and cause enough confusion to allow Barb, Axel, Cora, and Willis to pile into Barb's armored van and lead the Congressionals on a car chase, culminating in a hand-to-hand fight between Barb and Colonel Pryzer on a forklift suspended by crane above the harbor. Pryzer falls to his death while Barb escapes.
In the end, the party makes it to the airport, where Barb reveals that she still has the contact lenses. She gives them to Cora, and Cora and Axel get on the plane to Canada while Willis and Barb remain on the rainswept tarmac.

Review: 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.
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.
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.
While Barb Wire isn't an Academy style good movie, it succeeds wonderfully at what it is: a comic book translated to film.
As a dumb Saturday night special it still barely cuts it for me, although it is noisy, if that's all you want.....Anderson isn't an actress  if it wasn't for a good publicity agent and a boob-job, she wouldn't even be offered the roles that Shannon Tweed gets!
OK the critics dismissed this,and many call this a cheesy bad movie,all the Pamela Anderson haters,but me i thought barb wire rocked.
its a good action movie,i think Roger Corman would envy,and yes Pam Anderson does look like a busty Barbie doll.she looks great.her acting is'nt great but who cares.its an action film.that follows the plot of Casablanca,believe it or not.Pam plays a variation of the Bogie character.Canadian actor Steve Railsback plays a Nazi type officer who runs around shooting people along with his Nazi like henchmen.i saw this originally in 1996 and did'nt really like it that much,i had re watched it recently and changed my mind.i know barb wire is mentioned on all these bad movie lists but its really pretty good.not a classic but a good action movie nonetheless.props to Pam Anderson playing a real kick butt heroine.7 out of 1o,just don't call her babe..
Although based in comic book series, the "Barb Wire" movie intends to be a remake o classical "Casablanca".
Pamela Anderson Lee will certainly never be mistaken for a talking pig, especially in the outfits she gets to wear in Barb Wire.
Whatever else the plot is, do people really care?This film was made, marketing and watched because of one thing and one thing only, Pamela Anderson.
I do have absolutely no problem with buxom babes calling the shots in an action flick,and I don't think too many men have either.What matters is that the plot is well executed and doesn't bore you at any moment while you're watching it."BarbWire" is anything but a bore.l Pamela Anderson plays Barbara Kopetski,a 21st century female soldier of fortune who was a one-time rebel with a cause,but now cares only about the money she makes from dangerous missions she is hired to undertake.However,things get complicated as her old lover Axel Hood(played by Temuera Morrison)reappears in her life,and asks for her help.She chooses to help him and wages an all-out war against the corrupt regime that is oppressing them,sacrificing her brother in the process.Its Pamela Anderson who makes this movie watchable,no doubt.She looks fabulous throughout the film and really fits into her role.Xander Berkeley as her faithful accomplice is the only character you notice beside her,while the rest are mere props.A decent action movie with an international bombshell to spice things up.Who's complaining ?.
Okay, yes this movie is a cheesey Casablanca rip-off and stars Pamela Anderson Lee and her two biggest assets.
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 guys who read this title will know what I'm talking about in this movie, "Barb Wire." Two words: Pamela Anderson.
Yes, the same lady you might have seen on "Baywatch." With her, and the endless, numerous, totally exciting action scenes in "Barb Wire," this movie is the bomb!
Sure people will mock her for being who she is, but if you are open before seeing the movie, she will surprise you.This isn't all about showing off Pam's body (who's fake boobs are not anywhere near as nice as they were before she had them done) but is a decent comic book made into a dynamite film.Pam needs more roles like this and should steer clear of the ditzy role she seems to prefer playing.
As much as I appreciate great movies and prefer to watch something that makes me think a little, a bit of brainless action and pure camp often does the trick too!
Despite it lacking orginal story, good acting and someone that you would care about in this movie besides Pam; it is not as bad as everone says.
I don't understand why "Barb Wire" is generally regarded as one of the world's worst movies ever made, whereas it's honestly not any worse than the vast majority of cheesy and violent post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi flicks from the late 70's/early 80's.
"Barb Wire" may be bad, but at the same time it's fantastically entertaining, with horrible dialogs and one-liners ("Don't call me babe!"), hideous wasteland sets, explosive action sequences and extravagant costume designs.
The action sequences were surprisingly decent, although there aren't many in this film as I thought there will be.The character Pamela Anderson makes out is fantastic, but at the same time, it's kind of dull.
I love the explosions and fighting sequences.Maybe the reason I like the film is that this film knows it is being bad, but it has a fun time with it.
Pamela Anderson is (despite all the critical damnation) really good in her role as tough-talking Barb Wire.
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)...
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).
Pamela Anderson also isn't acting material but she actually gives the viewing a "so bad it's good" experience.
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.
An sci-fi action movie remake of casablanca with Pamela Anderson.
The sad truth of the matter is it actually manages to be worse than that, I sat watching this movie with increasing horror trying to find a redeeming feature, something positive to say about it and the best i could come up with was "at least I didn't pay to see it" The acting is terrible the script is poor, most of the sets seem to be abandoned werehouses or waste ground.
There are no attempts at fancy phrasing, she just delivers her lines flat but is at least as good as say Arnie or Sly.Apart from Pam's undeniable screen presence the film is a stylish but pretty routine action movie.
It took me some time to figure out what's wrong with this movie and Pamela Anderson - or rather the character she plays.The problem is, Barb Wire is a man!
It is Pamela Anderson + the comics Barb Wire + Casablanca + low budget + Tasteless everything = hellish movie-making!
The only thing that is missing from this movie is a Brion James cameo!I'm certain that as the years go by, one day 'Barb Wire' will win the audience it deserves, and will be seen as the 1990s equivalent of 'Barbarella'.
I wonder how anyone could take a remake of CASABLANCA starring Pamela Anderson, the BAYWATCH "babe" herself, seriously enough to just denounce it as a terrible movie.
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.
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.
Bad movies like this often generate small cult followings, and that's about the size of audience the picture deserves Unfortunately, other than a couple of very obvious, absurdly over-the-top scenes, this film is just plain boring.
And also similarly, this time without the acting, the budget, the script, or the brains.Whenever you have a film that stars someone like Pamela Anderson, who is famous more for getting naked than anything else, it's not hard to predict that at some point during the film, she will pose as a stripper or a prostitute or something in order for the film to get her out of her clothes, and I'm pretty Pam does both here.
There's a thin storyline involving politics and secret weapons and Canadian money, of all things, and this, along with just about everything else in the film, is set on the back burner in favor of the emphasis on Pam's breasts, which are clearly more famous than she is.With movies like Barb Wire, I always try to look for a point where the film admits that it is not trying to be taken seriously.
Barb Wire is not really an action movie that makes every excuse possible excuse to get Pamela Anderson out of her clothes, but rather a comedy that amusingly poses as an action film, and the strange thing is that the nude or semi-nude scenes don't lead to sex scenes or anything like that, but usually to violence.
I just re-visited the Barb Wire home page on the IMDb, and the tagline for the film, which I never noticed, is based on one of the dumbest things about the entire movie.`Don't call me babe.'Sigh.
Anderson's performance is (I don't know how she manages it) sub par and seeing the-blind-guy-called-Charlie trying to act (being blind) made me realize that by watching Barb Wire I was watching a historic movie.
It's has a typical B-movie action atmosphere, a silly story, stereotypical characters and a lot of B-actors.I'm not a Pamela Anderson hater, she is a real character.
"Baywatch" babe Pamela Anderson Lee gives a faintly amusing non-performance as a sexy bar owner/bounty hunter/prostitute who gets involved with Resistance fighters during a second Civil War. Although based on the Dark Horse comic book serial, the film plays like a cross between a heavy-metal music video and an update of "Casablanca", complete with campy undermining and throwaway bad jokes.
Barb Wire could have been Pamela Anderson's big break on the big screen, but this movie failed miserably..
I must also admit that I has a childhood crush on Pamela Anderson from her time in Baywatch and I was eagerly looking forward to Barb Wire.
Needless to say, Barb Wire was very bad.Although I felt sorry for Pamela Anderson, she just sucked in this movie.
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.
"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 .
When an old flame, freedom fighter Axel (Temuera Morrison), re-enters her life seeking assistance to help a wanted scientist escape to Canada, Barb is reluctant to get involved, but after her blind brother is killed by the Congressionals, she finds herself once again joining the cause.With her ridiculously large chest, tiny waist, massive pout and cascading peroxide blonde locks, 90s sex-symbol Pamela Anderson certainly looks the part, but that's about the only good thing I can bring myself to say about this otherwise miserable mid-90s movie adaptation of Dark Horse comic-book character Barb Wire.Clearly never intended to be anything other than a vehicle to exploit the former Baywatch star's plastic sex appeal, the film is a poorly scripted piece of near-futuristic drivel, a post-apocalyptic Casablanca (complete with thinly veiled Nazis!) that deals in well-worn clichés and keeps costs to an absolute minimum by filming exclusively in derelict warehouses, junkyards and dock-lands.
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.
At least Pamela Anderson is worth the price of admission alone but for those of you who want a more in depth insight into the character, I suggest reading the comic book series instead.This movie sucks but Pam's in it so what do I know?.
Oh what fun to watch a film like Barb Wire; a film so bad, it's good as they say.
No; Barb Wire is about a woman, written BY a woman but generally comes off as a bit of a dud.The actual idea for this film on paper is nothing more than a B-Movie action film wanting to get made.
When I first heard they were making a Barb Wire movie, I thought, "Great!
Well, maybe if they make something like "Barb Wire meets Barney" or something like it; otherwise, I really couldn't think of something more idiotic than this movie.Pamela Lee should be locked and never been allowed to get near a studio, after her horrible acting in this picture.
Plus why give everyone what they paid five quid, probably less back then, straight away then lay that film on them?After two years or so, the only thing I remember clearly about the movie Barb Wire is that is sucked, but with Pam involved it didn't really matter that much..
Don't you think that someone attempted to rip off the story line to Casablanca and spice it up with some action and nipples?I think it's worth watching and thinking of as a Sci-Fi B-Movie and just laugh ;-).
Barb Wire is a film I guess in some way I'm kind of undecided on, it has the making for just a bad movie with Pamela's bad acting but has the action scenes and cheesy lines that make it fun as well.
Pam Anderson is a sexy female lead and isn't that hard to believe that at times she can be tough, she does wear that leather well I have to admit, but some of the way she delivers the lines was a little too Shaquil O'Neil, I think if you're going to do a movie like this, you might as well go over the top, go a little James Woods, it's all good.
I loved some of the action scenes, the fight on the fork lift was a lot of fun to watch and since the movie doesn't take itself too seriously, it's all good and makes the fight scenes that more exciting.
Pam Anderson may be an awful actress, but it's not like I was looking for an Oscar worth movie when I decided to watch it.
If you have an open mind and are looking for a good bad film, I think you'll get a kick out Barb Wire.
Again, while "Barb Wire" may not be a great film I didn't think it was necessarily that bad either.
Barb Wire, the comic book wasn't that popular, and the film follows that.
Set in 2017 during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor.
The opening shot of the movie, has a stripping, dancing wet Barb (Pamela Anderson) as a way to introduce this character.
Before I go any further I have to say right now that Barb Wire has the best opening credit sequence of any film I've ever seen, period.
Pamela Anderson isn't great but she's alright & looks the business although Tamuera Morrison is truly awful in every scene he's in.Barb Wire could have been great, I think an inexperienced director who hadn't directed a sci-fi or action film before hurt the film in the end.
I'm by no means saying Barb Wire is any sort of classic but there are moments here that I really liked, Pamela Anderson just looks great in leather & it has the best opening credit sequence ever, I can't recommend it but it's a film I'll always stick up for when everyone else is trashing it..
As awful as that sounds as I describe it, it's not quite as bad in execution.The movie opens with an extended credit sequence featuring Pamela Anderson Lee being splashed with water while exposing her breasts.
I suspect if it were ever remade in full, it would look more like Barb Wire than the original.Overall, it is not the horrible movie everyone made it out to be.
BARB WIRE is a much derided comic book-style sci-fi action movie featuring the one and only Pamela Anderson in the lead role.
So, after 28 years, Barb "Don't Call Her Babe" Wire references the exceedingly better movie, Batman.