Barb Wire (1996) Critic Reviews

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 the full review

Despite its obvious flaws, Barb Wire does what it sets out to do and does it well.Read the full review

David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

Ought to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert.Read the full review

Isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments.Read the full review

A convoluted mess, but there have been worse.Read the full review