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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonDavid Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific.
- 70Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonLee 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.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe 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.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt'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.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOught to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert.
- 40The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinIsn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments.
- 40Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumIts main source is a comic book, but it might as well be a computer.
- 25ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe element of high camp that makes for enjoyable "good trash" isn't present.
- 25San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackA convoluted mess, but there have been worse.
- 25San Francisco ExaminerSan Francisco ExaminerMuddled futuristic thriller.