Barb Wire (1996) from Johnny Web (Uncle Scoopy; Greg Wroblewski) and Tuna

Scoop's comments in white:

This comic book film is rated in the all-time Bottom 100 at IMDb, and is not likely to spur much interest in the discussion panels at Sundance and NYU, but you may enjoy Barb Wire if the following premise appeals to your inner child, or at least to your inner douchebag.

1. Start with Casablanca.

2. Relocate the story from North Africa in WW2 time period to Free City, USA in some hypothetical future war in 2017 - the second U.S. Civil War.

3. Cast Pam Anderson as Rick.

The DVD contains "extra sexy footage not seen in theaters", which means this: "Oops. We made a movie with Pam Anderson and forgot to show much of her jumbo, store-bought hooters. Nobody will buy this DVD for the story and the acting, so let's add some irrelevant footage of Pam dancing topless while her hyper-inflated funbags are being sprayed with an oily liquid."

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Ingmar Bergman was going to do the same thing in The Seventh Seal, but his casting director accidentally hired Bibi Andersson instead of Pam, and the checks were already cut, so they cut the medieval trapeze strip from the script at the last minute. Bergman has often remarked that he would have hired Pam except for the fact that the movie was made ten years before she was born.

Tuna's comments in yellow:

Barb Wire is a post-apocalyptic Pamela Anderson vehicle. She is a former resistance fighter, now a mercenary, living in the only free city left, running her bar, and doing the odd bounty hunter gig to pay the post-apocalyptic bills. In the opening scene, she is dancing and swinging on a trapeze with her breasts hanging out being sprayed with water. This is a night club act, and everything goes fine until a customer calls her "babe." Not a good idea, and she throws her high heel and kills him instantly, saying, "Don't call me Babe."

A government scientist has discovered that the government wiped out an entire city by testing a biological weapon, so she goes over to the resistance with the antidote to the weapon embedded in her DNA. She hopes to escape to Canada and expose this to the world, if only she can get her hands on a special set of contact lenses that will fool retina scanners, the current method of proving ID. The scientist is traveling with Anderson's old resistance partner and flame. The Congressionals (the Big Brother government bad guys) are out to prevent this at any cost.

Anderson is big and bad, and has a real attitude, but not much acting range in this film, and everyone else is like a comic book stereotype. It is not much of a story and the acting is abysmal, but some of the fights are good, and the film looks great. I have no idea what their budget was, but the sets and lighting were imaginative and very effective.