When I first saw this movie, I wasn't that impressed. I realized it was just a horrible version of Casablanca.
The main character is a business-women who has a business that will cater to anyone as long as they have money. They were jilted by a lover who didn't show up when they were expected. The lover pops up all the sudden with a spouse and begs for help to get them out of the area.
They could have at least done a better job than this.
One day, Barb Wire will be a required viewing for film school lol
shareI don't know what you're talking about! Personaly I've always thought Casablanca could use more face-punching, explosions, and women sauntering around in thigh-high boots and fishnets. :P
"Shame on you for making me use my rape-whistle in a non-rape situation!"
Casablanca also needed more automatic weapons fire, motorcycles, leather, and lesbian necking.
Which is not to say that Barb Wire was perfect because it had all those things (in abundance). What it needed at the climax was for Barb to dispatch Major Strasser (this movie's equivalent) in some other way, so that she could celebrate her victory over him by engaging in a gyrating dance on a forklift suspended high above the ground from a crane operated by her ex-boyfriend (the Ingrid Bergman character, Axel was it?). And since the next scene had it raining anyway, might as well have some water spraying on Barb while she does her gyrating forklift dance in the sky. That would have been perfect. At least it would have been perfect when I was fourteen.