![]() The gameplay was said to be similar to Resident Evil, with a single-player campaign and a two-player deathmatch mode. GT Interactive announced that they would be publishing a video game based on the film for the PlayStation, Saturn, PC, and Macintosh in January 1997. Worst Actress (Pamela Lee ) īest Fight (Pamela Anderson/Steve Railsback) Worst "Original" Song ("Welcome to Planet Boom!", by Tommy Lee) Worst Screenplay ( Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken) Worst Screen Couple (Pamela Anderson's "Impressive Enhancements") Since its release, Barb Wire has attracted a cult following. The film was ranked in the bottom 20 of the Stinkers' "100 Years, 100 Stinkers" list, which noted the 100 worst movies of the 20th century, at #19. īarb Wire holds a 28% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 36 reviews (10 positive, 27 negative), with the consensus stating that " Barb Wire could've been fun camp, but Pamela Anderson can't deliver her lines with any dramatic or comedic impact". Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized Anderson's performance, comparing her to Barbie and Barbarella. Similarly to Ebert, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly commented on the film's aping of the Casablanca plot and its "teasing, hollow 'naughtiness'", but further said that the film is lacking in energy. ![]() Barb Wire has a high energy level, and a sense of deranged fun". Roger Ebert pointed out that the film's plot was identical to that of Casablanca and derided the low-brow attempts at sensuality, but praised the cast and crew's approach to the material: "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. Critical response īarb Wire was panned by critics. Reception Box office īarb Wire was a box-office bomb, grossing less than $3.8 million in the United States. ![]() She gives them to Cora, and Cora and Axel get on the plane to Canada while Willis and Barb remain on the rainswept tarmac.Ī soundtrack album, also titled Barb Wire, was released on April 23, 1996. The party makes it to the airport, where Barb reveals she still has the contact lenses. Pryzer falls to his death while Barb escapes. 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. Willis makes a show of arresting Barb and Cora, but instead of putting handcuffs on Barb, he slips her a hand grenade. 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. Rather than give the lenses to Cora and Axel, Barb makes a deal with 'Big Fatso', 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. The lenses pass through the hands of several lowlifes before also ending up at Barb's nightclub. They try to find a contraband pair of contact lenses that would allow Cora to evade the retinal scan identification at the Steel Harbor airport. The two were separated during the conflict. ![]() She is accompanied by Axel Hood, a " freedom fighter" Barb had loved at the outbreak of the war. Devonshire hopes to escape to Canada to make this information public.ĭevonshire turns up at the Hammerhead. Devonshire so they can end the Second Civil War by releasing the virus on the United Front territories. The Congressional Council has tasked Colonel Victor Pryzer with finding Dr. Corrina 'Cora D' Devonshire, a former government scientist with information about a new bioweapon called Red Ribbon being developed by her former superiors in the Congressional Directorate. She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter. In 2017, during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor, "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the war. Although Barb Wire was panned by critics, it has attracted a cult following. The film stars Pamela Anderson in the title role, alongside Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Xander Berkeley, Udo Kier, and Steve Railsback. It was directed by David Hogan, produced by Brad Wyman, and written by Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken. Barb Wire is a 1996 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name.
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