Private Gold 24: Operation Sex Siege (1997 Video) User Reviews

a surprise

[dannycboon · 8/10 · 20 July 2002]

this suprisingly good porn flick opens with the incredible sexy Dina Jewel tracking down some criminals to hijack a boat with a very important businessman on it.

the title refers to Under siege with segal.acting good be better but the production values are great certainly for this kind of movie close up editing and camerawork are fantastic and make this one look like a normal movie

another surprise of this movie that you have to wait for near 8 minutes for the first sex scene wich is a very passionate one the rest of the scene are good although it seems a little to much to make it believable,but if like a lighthearted film with stunts beautiful girls action and hardcore sex than this is the one

When craftsmanship mattered

[lor_ · 21 August 2021]

Viewed nearly 25 years after release, this Private Media feature reminds one of that far-off time when Adult Cinema was taken seriously enough by its practioners to warrant careful attention to making a real movie, of course with explicit erotic content included. Just glancing at a cast and crew list numbering over 300 names is jaw-dropping, given that most porn nowadays is cranked out with a skeleton crew.

Director Nic Cramer was a very big deal during the VHS era, now principally remembered for his "Looker" and "A Clockwork Orgy", and his stylistics and command of filmmaking impresses here.

Basically taking the form of an action/caper film with maximum production values and deadpan performances, the show quickly moves beyond the "Under Siege" premise from that Steven Seagal starrer, concerning hijacking a cruise ship as part of a plot to steal a floppy disk containing key information, to become a suspenseful thriller. I especially enjoyed the chance to root for the "bad guys", glamorously led by redhead beauty Dina Jewel (sort of a Gillian Anderson beauty with brains type), who organizes her special crew featuring Mike Foster, Zenza Raggi and twin action babes, offering "a hundred large" as payment for the operation, likely meaning $100,000.

Nominal good guys are muscular if wooden Chris De May and his sexy girlfriend Ivy Crystal, who outwit and outfight the baddies but curiously are not as charismatic, a neat inversion. Technical aspects of the storytelling are very fine, especially the tight, quite professional editing, likewise pro lighting, and okay action scenes and pyrotechnics.

Main fault here, predictably, is that the momentum and suspense of a well-made action movie is frequently interrupted by everything screeching to a halt in order to take time out for a XXX porn sequence. Cramer keeps them concise, but they nonetheless break the spell that one is watching a real movie rather than just porn. And for current 21st Century viewers, their relative brevity (e.g., 5 minutes of sex rather than the now mandatory half hour or so) is no longer appreciated.

Nonetheless, this movie belongs on a serious Adult fan's want list, and even proves to be a forerunner of fellow Swedish director Mike Beck's string of action/porn flicks -with Beck featured in a NonSex acting role here early in his career.