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Once again Mr. Adamo manages to squander real potential!
dpfacialfan12 May 2012
I love the cast of this movie. It's filled with hot and horny women who are known to give great performances. But like so many times before Antonio Adamo manges to "fuck" things up with his directing style. Everyone who's read my reviews before know how much I despise this guy. He has manged to ruin so many porno movies, I can't even count them anymore. The only thing this guy is good at is picking a hot cast, as he usually does manage to pick some spectacularly hot ladies to star in his movies. But when he "fucks" everything else up that makes it even worse.

Here we see the same big mistakes as in many of his other movies. We have the way too bright lights, artistic editing, both when it comes to the picture and sound, and we get the close ups and bad angles too. It's sad to see talented women like these who works hard to satisfy their audience, get "pissed" on by a talentless asshole like Antonio Adamo. It's really ridiculous to watch the behind the scenes material on the DVD were we see people wasting time building sets and trying to tell a boring story, when they should be giving us some quality "fucking".

This movie contains 7 different scenes. We get 3 boy girl scenes, 2 threesomes with 2 girls and 1 guy, 1 threesome with 1 girl and 2 guys and a "orgy" scene with 3 girls and 2 guys. I think that 3 boy girl scenes were too much and would have liked to see some more diversity in the scenes. Especially Claudia Ricci (Jackson) was wasted in this movie as she's in 2 of the boy girl scenes. I would have liked to see this girl in a double penetration scene instead. But the only girl who gets DP:ed in this movie is Lynn Stone. Thank god they put a wig on Lynn's head so we wouldn't have to look at her bald head. This way the scene was at least somewhat enjoyable. The scene with Sandra Iron, Lauren Kiss and Mona Green had the most potential. But the whole scene is a complete letdown. It's just Lauren "fucking" one of the guys while Sandra "fucks" the other one. Mona is totally useless in the scene as neither of the guys "fuck" her. She just jerks of the guy "fucking" Sandra a couple of times in between. This scene is a real waste considering both Mona and Lauren had double penetration listed as their favorite position according to the information on the DVD. These two guys should have given the DP treatment to all three girls.

The threesomes with 2 girls and 1 guy didn't deliver any real punch either. Both scenes had Sandra Russo as one of the girls. First she teams up with Sophie Evans to take on a guy and in the other she teams up with Sabina Black. Both scenes could have and should have been way better. But with a director like Antonio Adamo it's no shocker that they were both disappointments. The last green screen scene with Sophie Evans was probably the "best" in the movie, if you can use that word here, just because of the fact that it was least affected by the directing style of Antonio Adamo. All in all this is a very disappointing porno movie that had enormous potential when you look at the women involved.
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Merely adequate re-boot, wastes "Virtualia" potential
lor_8 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Regarded by fans as Antonio Adamo's best achievement, the "Virtualia" series of 6 films started over with Episode 3, introducing a trilogy about the "Dark Side" (with no apologies to George Lucas). Major switch in story from science fiction to pure fantasy is hard to swallow, as is Adamo's cavalier attitude towards some characters and his casting decisions.

Lynn Stone is back in the title role, but the character is radically changed. She was an android love goddess in the first double-film (Episodes 1 and 2) but moving 20 years into the future (now 2038) she is a real woman and clairvoyant (plus other unspecified super powers) to boot. At one point her wig is suddenly jettisoned and she plays the rest of the saga with a very short vintage Mia Farrow look, in different hair colors.

A rather confusing story is concocted in which various factions are all searching for pieces of a monolith called The Dark Side, covered ion hieroglyphics and related to ancient Egypt. This has nothing to do with the virtual reality and satellite technology that drove "Virtualia" before and I had trouble getting used to the concept. Adamo likes ancient cultures and has made his fame over the years with epics like "Cleopatra", "Private Gladiator" and "Roma", so this change of heart is natural, but his changing characters (yet using the same actors) in this and future episodes of the series is off-putting. It's tantamount to George Lucas somehow merging his "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" epics together somehow, pivoting on the actor (not the roles, of course) Harrison Ford.

The new cast members of Episode 3 are welcome, bringing tremendous sex appeal to the plate. Sandra Russo is an evil Princess Calipsia, possessing 1/3 shard of The Dark Side monolith and up to no good. Actress Russo is given an entirely different role by the time we get to Episode 6, and making matters worse the very poor English dubbing has her called Calypso many times and even refers to her sloppily as a man, all to confuse poor me.

Sophie Evans, the top female star of the saga, is back from Episode 2 but has a new role as Russo's henchwoman. A pair of nebulous government types are played by Alberto Rey and Alex Mantegna and it took another couple of episodes before I could figure out if they were good guys or Black hats, thanks to sloppy Adamo scripting and direction. A cornball good guy is played by David Perry, who also handles the lion's share of the humping.

Moroccan locations provide lots of atmosphere, and Lynn Stone's Virtualia a dollop of continuity as she is important in getting the Stone back together again (sounds like a rock and roll movie with Mick Jagger) over the course of the trilogy. Many beauties fill up the screen including nominal heroine Juilia played by Claudia Jackson, partnered with Perry as archaeologists.

Goofiest element is a monk named Cyclops leading a weird cult, played with an odd hairdo by Christophe Clark in a surprisingly non-sex role for the usually hyperactive cocksman. His right-hand man is confusingly Mike Foster, a different role unrelated to his major presence in Parts 1 & 2. Cyclops is often pronounced just "Cyclop" in the bad English dubbing.

Adamo has some infuriating content in these interregnum segments of his saga that really spoiled the story. He imitates the ending of "Blade Runner" at the end of Part 2, even though the ending was the weakest part of that Ridley Scott movie. At one point he has one of Foster's many characters seemingly reincarnated on a beach to meet his "daughter" (her android vs. human woman status is always left confused here) Virtualia that is a stupid lift from the climax featuring David Morse of Jodie Foster's sci-fi epic "Contact", and on one of the BTS "Report" short subjects there is boasting about stealing elements from such disparate sources as "The X Files" and "Twin Peaks", to implicate cult television material. Ugh!
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