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    Barb Wire (1996)

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    Once upon a time, comic book films were not always expected to be sophisticated works of classy entertainment.

    Still, Barb Wire is totally inept and inert. Busting out with a tawdry introduction of soft-core striptease, the film takes a buxom bounty hunter from Dark Horse comics (home to Hellboy and Sin City) and lets pneumatic Pamela Anderson play her as a DOA mannequin.

    In the early 21st century, the USA is in the wake of the Second American Civil War. The whole country is in a constant state of emergency and the fascistic Congressional Directorate rules the country.

    There is only one free city left, Steel Harbor, a coastal California industrial town which is also headquarters for the resistance. This is the hometown of Barb Wire, owner of the Hammerhead nightclub (and part-time mercenary and bounty hunter).

    One evening, her former lover Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison) appears at the club asking for a favour to help him and his lover Cora D (Victoria Rowell) – who just happens to be a  former government scientist who has information about a bioweapon being developed by the Congressional Directorate – flee the country to Canada.

    The plot is a shameless rip-off of Casablanca and makes no effort to hide it.

    Barb Wire
    Pamela Anderson
    Axel Hood
    Temuera Morrison
    Cora D (Dr Corrina Devonshire)
    Victoria Rowell
    Alexander Willis
    Xander Berkeley
    Colonel Pryzer
    Steve Railsback
    Curly
    Udo Kier
    Schmitz
    Clint Howard
    Emily
    Vanessa Lee Asher
    Spike
    Jennifer Banko
    Foster
    Tony Bill
    Big Fatso
    Andre Rosey Brown
    Manny 
    Mark Collver
    Sharif
    Shelly Desai
    Weasel
    Neil Hunt
    Moe
    Henry Kingi
    Sheik 
    Marshall Manesh
    Charlie
    Jack Noseworthy
    Smooth
    John Paxton
    Frick
    Peewee Piemonte
    Krebs
    Loren Rubin
    Santo
    Michael Russo
    Jack
    Nils Allen Stewart
    Frack 
    Dominique Vandenberg
    China
    Ai Wan
    Maria
    Diane Warshay
    Ruben
    Nicholas Worth

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    David Hogan

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