The best Casablanca rip-off ever made that stars a balloon-breasted Playboy Playmate who dresses in black bustiers and that has a scene where a fat guy explodes. This is the start and the end of Pamela Anderson’s career as an action star. She’s Barb Wire, a moody, brooding, constantly jiggling bounty huntress/bar owner in a dystopian future America. Any movie plot is confusing when you’re not paying attention to it because you’re too busy watching for nipple slips from the main character and the whole first half of this one suffers from that. It’s at about the forty-minute mark though when the story here becomes the exact same thing as Casablanca, with Pamela Anderson ridiculously in the Humphrey Bogart role, and it becomes more entertaining. Adding to the goofball brew is Udo Kier as Barb Wire’s dutiful assistant and Steve Railsback as the creepy-eyed villain.
All in all, this is no Barbarella but it deserves some consideration as a camp classic. Based on an independent comic book series.