
Critical response īarb Wire was panned by critics. Reception Box office īarb Wire failed at the box-office, grossing less than $3.8 million in the United States. Ī soundtrack album, also titled Barb Wire, was released in 1996. The fact that she had to wear high heels and a corset that made her waist 17 inches made fight scenes challenging. Anderson did some of her own stunts, even though she was afraid of heights. The film had a production budget of $9 million. Diane Shay as Stripper In Dressing Roomīarb Wire was directed by David Hogan, who had previously been the second-unit director on Alien 3 and Batman Forever.Mary Anna Reyes as Woman In Torture Room.Steve Railsback as Colonel Victor Pryzer.Xander Berkeley as Chief Alexander Willis.Pamela Anderson Lee as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski.She gives them to Cora, and Cora and Axel get on the plane to Canada while Willis and Barb remain on the rainswept tarmac. The party makes it to the airport, where Barb reveals she still has the contact lenses. Pryzer falls to his death while Barb escapes. Barb uses the grenade to kill Fatso and cause enough confusion to allow Barb, Axel, Cora and Willis to pile into Barb's armored van and lead the Congressionals on a car chase, culminating in a hand-to-hand fight between Barb and Colonel Pryzer on a forklift suspended by crane above the harbor. Willis makes a show of arresting Barb and Cora, but instead of putting handcuffs on Barb, he slips her a hand grenade. But Fatso double-crosses Barb when Barb, Axel and Cora show up at the junkyard to make the swap, Colonel Pryzer and his storm troopers are also there, along with Chief of Police Willis. Rather than give the lenses to Cora and Axel, Barb makes a deal with 'Big Fatso', the leader of a junkyard gang: Fatso wants the lenses, which are worth a fortune on the black market, and Barb wants a million dollars and an armed escort to the airport, where she plans to get on the plane to Canada. The lenses pass through the hands of several lowlifes before also ending up at Barb's nightclub. They try to find a contraband pair of contact lenses that would allow Cora to evade the retinal scan identification at the Steel Harbor airport.

The two were separated during the conflict. She is accompanied by Axel Hood, a " freedom fighter" Barb had loved at the outbreak of the war.

Devonshire hopes to escape to Canada to make this information public.ĭevonshire turns up at the Hammerhead. Devonshire so they can end the Second Civil War by releasing the virus on the United Front territories. The Congressional Council has tasked Colonel Victor Pryzer with finding Dr. Corrina 'Cora D' Devonshire, a former government scientist with information about a new bioweapon called Red Ribbon being developed by her former superiors in the Congressional Directorate. She earns cash as a mercenary and bounty hunter.
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In 2017, during the Second American Civil War, Barb Wire owns the Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor, "the last free city" in a United States ravaged by the war.
