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 Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
David Hogan keeps the action moving and loaded with fights, gun battles and other action-trashy thrills. Lee is terrific.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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 Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Isn't much when it comes to either deliberate or inadvertent humor. But it does have a few amusing moments.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Ought to be disreputable fun. Instead it ends up, all its explosions and exposed flesh notwithstanding, rather inert.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The element of high camp that makes for enjoyable "good trash" isn't present.Read Full Review »