Secret Games 2: The Escort (1993) User Reviews

Awful except for Sara Suzanne Brown

[babeulous · 3/10 · 25 September 2001]

Kyle is a bum who imagines himself a "performance artist." He mistreats everyone in his life, and whines into his camera about how horrible his life is, in long, tedious monologues.

This picture would have been much more satisfying if a maniac in a clown mask had burst in and hacked Kyle to death with a huge knife. Or if the hooker turned into a werewolf and mauled him. But this isn't a Hitchcock picture so everybody doesn't get what they deserve.

Amy Rochelle didn't do much for me, but Sara Suzanne Brown pulled off a great combination of innocence and sexuality as the housewife Irene trapped in a marriage to a guy even duller than Kyle. She's hot, hot, hot here, and it's the only sympathetic character. However, I found it hard to believe a babe like Irene would fall for an obnoxious loser like Kyle.

See this picture if you like Sara, and for a great three-way scene where Amy's hooker brings Kyle another hooker for his birthday. (Of course this might be missing from the "R" version.) Fast forward the rest, unless you like to watch jerks feeling sorry for themselves and whining about how badly the world treats jerks. If only it *did*!

Note to the writers: Asides (characters addressing the audience) work as jokes in _Rocky and Bullwinkle_. Shakespeare was able to make them work in serious drama. You're not that good.

Exhausted

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 22 January 2022]

There's no spark between college professor Heather and Kyle (Martin Hewitt) any more. He was once an art critic and now he's a performance artist, which she finds pretty stupid. Once she leaves him, he just calls over Stacey to dominate him but she can't love him. Irene loves him too, but he's infatuated with Stacey, so...

He's also videotaping his life and keeps talking directly to the camera.

So is sex just as cold and calculating as Kyle's art? Was Dark sick and tired of not just sex - he'd come back to adult to make sequels to New Wave Hookers, Between the Cheeks and The Devil in Miss Jones 5: The Inferno before making videos for Sublime, Onyx and, in a fact that still blows my mind, Mandy Moore, Britney Spears and A*Teens - so maybe if he's tired of sex, we should all watch and learn.

Martin Hewitt's best role!

[Serpent-5 · 21 May 1999]

This film has nothing to do with the first film, which also starred Hewitt. Hewitt is cast as an unemployed married guy who tries to become a conceptual artist by video taping his life and talking to the camera. He orders a hooker, and becomes drawn to her, as she treats him like nothing. He also has a affair with a married woman, so he treated her like the same way the hooker treated him. He says some interesting speech like how dating a woman is like getting hooker, and how she didn't care about irene and all she was to him was a hot thing. Funny scenes and lines, and this is one of Hewitt's best roles. The unrated version seems to go on forever and is really boring, but the "R" version is shorter and runs better.

Hot enough for my tastes. Worths the watch for Amy Rochelle.

[insomniac_rod · 8/10 · 31 August 2008]

I used to watch this movie on (obviously) late night cable and I always thought it was a hot movie. The reason of my thoughts? Mainly because of Amy Rochelle's sensuality, body, hot faces during sex, and her steamy sex scenes.

She's the reason to watch the movie so if you are a fan of hers, you will truly enjoy this one. There are many highlights of her including a steamy sex sequence where she's dressed as a bride. But that's only a good scene, there are MORE and very hot scenes.

But it's not only about her because Sara Suzanne Brown is extremely sexy in this feature and her sex scenes won't disappoint you. Yes, even during some three some action.

Marie Leroux is pretty hot and has a yummy body. Her sex scenes are also very hot.

My final verdict: this is among the best soft core features with "that" early 90's feeling. I'm talking about the grainy cinematography, outdated costumes, "romantic" jazz and blues music, and of course, "classy" camera angles.

Performance Artist Risks Everything

[makeyourmark-830-226434 · 9/10 · 23 November 2011]

Having long been a fan of low-budget, independent movies, I was pleasantly surprised by Secret Games II. Martin Hewitt as performance artist Kyle Lake shows a side of his acting that we haven't really seen before, and we are witness to an interesting psychological tug-of-war between his art, erotic call girls, and the hard, revealing truths behind their dangerous "games." As he sinks deeper into this world, it is Kyle's art (videotapes) that becomes the vehicle for the answers he seeks -- done ingeniously through dialogue directly to the audience. Add Amy Rochelle, Sara Suzanne Brown, and Marie Leroux, and the erotic quotient goes up considerably. But perhaps most exciting aspect of the movie is the reappearance of the writer Russell La Valle, whose skills I first noticed on his film Sins of the Night. Once again, La Valle shows a talent that stands above the rest in this genre. After "Sins" I would often come across other, non-entertainment writings of his and always came away with the feeling that here is a writer who deserves assignments that are commensurate with his talent. I can only hope that someone else takes notice of his capabilities and hires him to tackle movie projects of larger scope and importance. Until then, I will continue to champion these low-budget cable features whose entertainment value has been undervalued and under-appreciated for too long.

Not bad, a solid C.

[Smooth B · 2 December 1999]

What truly held this movie back was it's "innovative" method of stopping the movie so the characters could talk to you. It was almost like watching a bad play. Amy Rochelle was very hot in this flick, and her various sex scenes are almost worth the price of renting it.

The hottest woman is barely in the movie... (and an unknown)...

[faltain-89267 · 8/10 · 20 April 2018]

This is one of those late night Cinemax 90's "skin flicks" your older brother used to brag about seeing without your parents consent. It's got art-house production, with the main character constantly talking to the camera about his "feelings".

Speaking of the main character: he is woefully unlikable as others have said. Apparently stuck in the doldrums of middle-age, he can't find happiness despite having a gorgeously hot wife (who is admittedly bitchy but probably justifiably so as the guy seems like a lump of garbage...) and living in a rather nice looking house seemingly doing ok for himself.

Speaking of the wife and to go on a bit of a tangent here... the funniest part of this movie (to me) is that he cheats on his super attractive wife (whom I've long believed is really Michele Brin/Michele Lamothe post-breast operation in a black wig; compare Marie Leroux's breasts in this with Michele Brin's later from Scoring for instance)... with women that aren't nearly as attractive as she is. This is a subjective opinion of course, but to me she's always blown away the other woman in this film. She's thankfully got a few scenes, notably a rather "risque" shot that opens with her and the main character in a missionary position (lucky bastard), another where he's doing her missionary again and tries to get her to go anal (apparently, it's not shown what he's trying to do back there) and she rebuffs him... and another where she's shown sitting in a bed smoking waiting on him... (so if you're into that kind of fetish there's something here for you). Whenever she's seen it's hard for me to take the main character seriously as it doesn't follow logic he'd cheat on her.

The other women in the film are decent, but aren't anything special as far as I'm concerned. And that about sums the movie up for me.