Sheer incompetence sinks this "big-deal" Adam & Eve porn-parody project for the label's premier star Carmen Luvana. Many scenes play like some no-budget backyard video shot by horror-obsessed teens in New Jersey, rather than a prestige picture from one of Adult Cinema's leading studios.
Blame falls on writer-director Daniel Dakota, provider of some of A & E's worst junkers. Story parallels the Al Pacino hit by DePalma, but script and staging of scenes is pitiful.
Luvana as Toni Luvana (chuckle, chuckle) plays it tough throughout, but the continuity of her rise as a gangster and violent end is awful, and individual scenes are botched. Worst is a bit of violence in a diner featuring Rod Fontana and Dirty Harry opposite Ice LaFox, Carmen and her BFF Ava Rose (also an A & E contract star). The violent chain-saw murder of Harry occurs off-screen (as we see the crew messing up the "no retakes" staging in the BTS on a worthless second DVD disk of the "deluxe" package), and the acting especially by Rod in this awkward scene is miserable.
Tommy Gunn overacts as the gangster kingpin who Carmen supplants, and sex scenes with various blondes are all extraneous filler. This mess would be campy had Dakota done a merely competent job, rather than turning in unusable scene after scene.
Blame falls on writer-director Daniel Dakota, provider of some of A & E's worst junkers. Story parallels the Al Pacino hit by DePalma, but script and staging of scenes is pitiful.
Luvana as Toni Luvana (chuckle, chuckle) plays it tough throughout, but the continuity of her rise as a gangster and violent end is awful, and individual scenes are botched. Worst is a bit of violence in a diner featuring Rod Fontana and Dirty Harry opposite Ice LaFox, Carmen and her BFF Ava Rose (also an A & E contract star). The violent chain-saw murder of Harry occurs off-screen (as we see the crew messing up the "no retakes" staging in the BTS on a worthless second DVD disk of the "deluxe" package), and the acting especially by Rod in this awkward scene is miserable.
Tommy Gunn overacts as the gangster kingpin who Carmen supplants, and sex scenes with various blondes are all extraneous filler. This mess would be campy had Dakota done a merely competent job, rather than turning in unusable scene after scene.