It never occurred to me, when I first saw this in the '90s, that it was widely considered a crappy movie. It gets a user rating on IMDB though of 4.something--below Killer Klowns from Outer Space even, and critics largely hated it.

I just rewatched it, and remembered why it's one of my very favorite '90s movies. Who could not love the gorgeous Lori Petty playing BD/SM games with the bad guys, pretending that getting beat up by them is a particularly fun scene, the blood trailing down her neck from multiply piercing her own ear in the back room of a brothel, wriggling along the gun of her new tank to the tune of "Shaft," having sex with a mutant man/kangaroo, while his grumpy Black Pantheresque kanga-comrade, played by Ice-T, thoroughly disapproves? Who could not love such classic, inspirational lines like "It's been swell, but now the swelling's gone down"? Female action star before Buffy, directed by one of the few woman directors in the world, why haven't third-wave feminists the world over embraced this as the movie of their generation?

Underrated masterpiece, I tell you.