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70Despite its obvious flaws, Barb Wire does what it sets out to do and does it well.
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70David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific.
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70Lee 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.
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63The 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.
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50It'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.
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50This 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.
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40Ought to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert.
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40Isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments.
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40Its main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer.
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30Compared to this brash, lunkheaded vehicle for "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson Lee, the Barb Wire graphic novels are masterpieces of subtlety and narrative restraint.
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25A convoluted mess, but there have been worse.
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Muddled futuristic thriller.
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25The element of high camp that makes for enjoyable "good trash" isn't present.
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0Numbingly violent action.