Barb Wire

What did you expect?

From the get-go, Anderson let's it all hang out. And late 20s Anderson is sexy as sin.
Also, Word Up. The Gun cover, but it's still good. The music's the best part of the movie. Except the porno-sax parts.

The movie is basically Mad Maxablanca with boobs. Boobs on Boggie. Disturbing. Not sure it's comics-accurate, but who's read this?

Funny thing, America is ravaged by (un)civil strife in ... 2017.
Reality was less fun.
Then again, the 'safe' dollar is Canadian, so, sci-fi.
Also, Casablanca made sense to escape from Europe at the time. But trying to sneak into Canada? Isn't the border on the huge side?

Anderson is hardly inside her costumes. Not a thespian by any means, but she fits the role. She goes through the action parts a lot better than expected.
Morrison is just out of Once Were Warriors, but hey, bills are bills.
Rowell is (not) out of The Young & The Restless. Over 800 episodes. Impressive until one learns there are over 13k episodes. Anyway, not quite talented, but gorgeous.
Berkeley is a solid actor, doing a solid job.
Kier is, well, Kier. Has been all his life, so he's good at it.

The photography is surprisingly acceptable, albeit on the darker side, and the whole thing is rather well paced. Hogan does have a gazillion music videos to his name, so there's that.

No agenda that I could see. For those screaming Nazi imagery! Well, Casablanca rip-off, so Nazi rip-off.
Common sense rip-off.

It has some fun lines ("Pleasure doing business with you" "If it was pleasure, I'd charge more."), charismatic actors, a decent script, good music, good photo.


I rate it a solid 60% as a second-screener (technically third screen, but let us not nitpick).
As a main watch? It's a safe (but not for work) double-bill with Street Fighter, I guess.