Review of Barb Wire

This movie is nearly unwatchable even if it has Pamela Anderson in it. She's not that sexy to spend 98 minutes watching a movie, loosely based on the movie plot of 1942's Casablanca. I wouldn't say this movie paying homage to it, as a lot of it was change, so it wouldn't be a total rip off of Casablanca. Barb Wire, the film is mostly based on the Dark Horse comics that bare its name. Barb Wire, the comic book wasn't that popular, and the film follows that. Barb Wire isn't that sharp, but it's does hurts to watch. Set in 2017 during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson) owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor. Steel Harbor is describe as the last free city in a United States that wasn't ravaged by the war. In my opinion, it was ravaged by a horrible script. Directed by David Hogan, everything looks dirty. Steel Harbor looks like a dump, and Hammerhead is like a hole in the wall strip club. There isn't no glamor here. I think the film makers were going the gritty Sci-Fi route with this story, but there is no class, when you make a movie that has your main character parading herself in her bathing suit. It's not a believable to believe this half naked woman is a bad ass mercenary and bounty hunter. Like the Casablanca movie, a Chief of Police comes around time to time to raid her club for fugitives. Willis (Xander Berkeley) is looking for 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. Cora D later turns up at the club, with Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison) a freedom fighter from the United Front whom Barb had known and loved before the war. Both hopes to escape to Canada in order to make this information public. If you're looking for Casablanca like performance, here. You're deeply going to be disappointed. The characters in this movie are pretty unlikeable as Barb only cares about money. Barb doesn't go through any struggle with morality. The acting is bad. Pamela Anderson speaks in this movie with little to no emotion in her delivery. It's not like the dialogue is any good. Most of it was bland. Monologues are horrible. Show, don't tell, movie. The only reason why this movie was made was to capitalize on how hot and popular, Pamela Anderson was in the 1990s. The movie was made for the objectification of women. The opening shot of the movie, has a stripping, dancing wet Barb (Pamela Anderson) as a way to introduce this character. I thought I was watching a porno, then an action movie when I saw this. It tries to be feminist in a way, because Barb Wire hates being call 'babe', but fails miserably due to pointless nudity scenes, blatant sexual overtones and fantasies of torture to women. Plus, they even said Barb is also a hooker. This movie is disturbing. The action is pretty bad. The stunts are painfully unspectacular. She did some of her own stunts, although the corset and the heels she wore made fight scenes very challenging. I don't find how Barb Wire is able to fight off enemies wearing black leather and 7 inch high heeled boots. I would thought she would fall, a few times. Watching the outtakes, she did. The vision of a fascist America, is never that canny. In my opinion, if the story went deeper into how this world came to be, maybe this film could had work. The camera work is horrible. The obnoxious close-ups and the endless fade to black get tiresome. Yes, the movie does have some entertaining value as its target audience might like seeing Pamela's boobs and violent mixed together. Still, in the end, anybody that watch this, knows well that this is a bad movie. It was cheesy when it came out, and it's still cheesy. Don't expect this movie to be what it isn't. It's a B movie, with B everything. It's not supposed to be taken seriously. Still, this movie sucks.