Barb Wire
Gramercy Pictures (I) | Release Date: May 3, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
5
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70
Washington PostDesson Thomson
David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific. Read full review
70
Washington PostHal Hinson
Lee elevates herself from the lower echelon of mere international super-babedom to the loftier realm of pulp myth. She is "It" with an exclamation mark. Read full review
70
VarietyAndrew Hindes
Despite its obvious flaws, Barb Wire does what it sets out to do and does it well. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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. Barb Wire has a high energy level, and a sense of deranged fun. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's a comic book movie in the broadest sense of the term, and although it's neither as emotionally resonant as "The Crow" nor as surreally goofy as "Tank Girl," Barb Wire still manages to get you going, Anderson Lee fan or not. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
This rusted-future comic strip comes at you in shards -- exhaustingly derivative images of mayhem and titillation, with Lee, in her bad-girl bondage gear, as its blank vixen. If you didn't call her babe, she wouldn't exist. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Ought to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Its main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not credited)
Compared to this brash, lunkheaded vehicle for "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson Lee, the Barb Wire graphic novels are masterpieces of subtlety and narrative restraint. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The element of high camp that makes for enjoyable "good trash" isn't present. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
A convoluted mess, but there have been worse. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerAllen Ulrich
Muddled futuristic thriller. Read full review
0
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Numbingly violent action. Read full review
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