Review of Barb Wire (1996) by Donald W — 18 Jan 2009
I liked this movie the first time I saw it when it was called Casablanca. Actually the first half of this movie is not to bad. The second half is just a lot of gunfights that don't have any point to the plot.
Since the plot is a rip-off of Casablanca they spend 10 minutes of gunfights and flaming explosions to cover the same plot element that Casablanca covered in ten seconds. The first half of the movie was based closer to the Dark Horse comic books and you get to see a lot of a naked Pam Anderson.
That's the only reason to see this movie is to see Pam Anderson naked so get the unrated version. I'd seen pieces of this movie on cable TV but the story was so implausible I turned off after 5 min.
Later I got the unrated DVD. The story must have been written by a Canadian. Pam Anderson's a Canadian, maybe they wrote the story to please her. In the movie's back story the USA is in the middle of a second civil war.
Most of the country has been taken over by Neo-Nazis and the fictional city of Steel Harbor is in neutral territory on the Canadian border. Canadian money is worth more than American money and the UN are good guys.
Maybe if they set the story 100 years in the future but they set it in the year 2017. Not likely.
This review of Barb Wire (1996) was written by Donald W on 18 Jan 2009.
Barb Wire has generally received negative reviews.
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