A pretty middle-of-the-road vintage porn flick, DIARY OF AN 'M' is a tease title-wise, suggesting BDSM but delivering nothing but vanilla fluff.
Hunky Steve (Mike Adams) shows up at his psychiatrist to discuss a series of dreams he's been having that all feature him having sex with men. In typical porn fashion, the rote relation of these encounters constitutes the entire film's running time, with Steve first being grabbed by a guy in an alley asking for a cigarette, next making it with a couple cute young patrons at a bar, and finally getting into some mixed-combo action with black stud Steve James. Pseudo-supernatural ending is in line with the kind of cheat most of these productions opt for, since there's no other way to conclude such a non-narrative.
As with most non-ambitious porn flicks, the make-or-break is the actors and their chemistry, and thankfully DIARY manages to deliver in this regard, generally providing decent sex scenes even if it can't be bothered to cough up a narrative to foreground them. The opening sequence provides the film's only hint of kink, with a little bit of forced coercion, though it's hard to take any of it particularly seriously since Adams looks more than capable of holding his own physically. (The fact that we're supposedly watching a dream helps smooth over this narrative implausibility.) The second scene is the real barn-burner, as all three guys (including one of the very foxy Christy twins, credited under an alias) are really cute and into what they're doing. The third scene is probably the weakest - proficient, but largely rote by comparison.
Overall, the film is competently mounted. Adams' acting is nothing to write home about, but he and the psychiatrist (the only ones who have scenes with sync sound) both deliver their lines without flubbing, which, while a pretty low bar to clear, nevertheless qualifies as success in the porn world. The film is well shot and decently scored, and all in all goes down quite easily. Like the sugary fluff I compared it to before, it's utterly insubstantial and not particularly good for you, but manages to please in the moment.
Hunky Steve (Mike Adams) shows up at his psychiatrist to discuss a series of dreams he's been having that all feature him having sex with men. In typical porn fashion, the rote relation of these encounters constitutes the entire film's running time, with Steve first being grabbed by a guy in an alley asking for a cigarette, next making it with a couple cute young patrons at a bar, and finally getting into some mixed-combo action with black stud Steve James. Pseudo-supernatural ending is in line with the kind of cheat most of these productions opt for, since there's no other way to conclude such a non-narrative.
As with most non-ambitious porn flicks, the make-or-break is the actors and their chemistry, and thankfully DIARY manages to deliver in this regard, generally providing decent sex scenes even if it can't be bothered to cough up a narrative to foreground them. The opening sequence provides the film's only hint of kink, with a little bit of forced coercion, though it's hard to take any of it particularly seriously since Adams looks more than capable of holding his own physically. (The fact that we're supposedly watching a dream helps smooth over this narrative implausibility.) The second scene is the real barn-burner, as all three guys (including one of the very foxy Christy twins, credited under an alias) are really cute and into what they're doing. The third scene is probably the weakest - proficient, but largely rote by comparison.
Overall, the film is competently mounted. Adams' acting is nothing to write home about, but he and the psychiatrist (the only ones who have scenes with sync sound) both deliver their lines without flubbing, which, while a pretty low bar to clear, nevertheless qualifies as success in the porn world. The film is well shot and decently scored, and all in all goes down quite easily. Like the sugary fluff I compared it to before, it's utterly insubstantial and not particularly good for you, but manages to please in the moment.