Brad Armstrong is an Adult filmmaker on the wrong track: in the BTS interview on this double-DVD set he expresses confidence in winning AVN award nominations, even aiming completion of the project to time up with awards' season. Instead of making interesting features as he did two decades earlier in his career, he is content to deliver cornball blockbusters like this overstuffed junker.
Entire story is carried by star Asa's voice-over narration, with no script credit (Brad owns up to writing it in the BTS). At a full four hours long, it is ridiculously dull and padded - I would have much preferred a 75-minute special like Vivid and Wicked routinely made in the '90s.
Asa as Holly is a high-priced escort, charging $5,000 to $10,000 per customer, and most definitely no hourly rate available. In the BTS she cops to having been a real-life escort a couple of times on a self-dare, and her non-adventures here are just an excuse for XXX sex content. Brad's story line about evil and highly placed community figures served by a secret sex club is pure corn, with Samantha Saint and Barrett Blade cast as the cops trying to nail its operators.
Xander Corvus is the fall guy who gets busted by uncredited cop Tyler Knight in the opening scene, and is later caught between the club and the police. A violent scene of him being murdered by hit lady Jessie Volt is unusual in self-proclaimed mainstream "nonviolent" porn, and perhaps serves as a wake-up call to any unlikely viewer watching 4 straight hours of this stuff uninterrupted.
The majority of sex scenes feature Asa, who is proudly uninhibited, notably in a showy set-piece of humping James Deen in the back of a limo driving around town, with anal-sex and even a champagne bottle thrust into her anus at one point. Film painstakingly glamorizes her profession, and is proudly amoral in concocting a phony happy ending of her escaping the police to live a new life on some tropical island.
Interestingly enough, Brad includes as bonus 3 lengthy sex scenes not included in the main feature, which would have added another 48 minutes to its running time. In one of these, he gets to hump Asa as her unscrupulous lawyer, and it is evident that that scene was part of a different ending in which Asa gets caught. Also, Blade gets to hump his partner Samantha in the extra footage, while in the main 4-hour program he is reduced to a peripheral, non-sex role.
Saint is seriously miscast as the busty police detective who goes undercover at great risk in an attempt to get the goods on the folks running the secret club. Her plastic beauty (yet another Jenna Jameson wannabe) and poor acting is inappropriate for the role -only looking all too convincing as a high-priced hooker after her transformation. Keni Styles has a fun role as a fashion designer who pretends to be gay (mandatory for his chosen profession) but proves otherwise when humping Asa and Saint in a threesome, and presenting latter with a call girl wardrobe in return.
I grade Brad's work on a sliding scale compared to the resources he commands: he 's one of the few pornographers who is accorded unlimited budgets (by Wicked) for some of his projects. This one has an all-star cast, ample location photography and nearly laissez faire cutting (4 to 5 hours for the finished version), so his underachievement is alarming. Final reels are devoted to an endless orgy that reduces many a superstar (Remy LaCroix, Kaylani Lei, Summer Brielle) to mere bit player.
Oddest takeaway is that slicked up as a slimy john Brad looks uncannily like the great British star Patrick Macnee circa his "The Avengers" TV hit of the '60s. If only he exuded a fraction of Macnee's class.
Entire story is carried by star Asa's voice-over narration, with no script credit (Brad owns up to writing it in the BTS). At a full four hours long, it is ridiculously dull and padded - I would have much preferred a 75-minute special like Vivid and Wicked routinely made in the '90s.
Asa as Holly is a high-priced escort, charging $5,000 to $10,000 per customer, and most definitely no hourly rate available. In the BTS she cops to having been a real-life escort a couple of times on a self-dare, and her non-adventures here are just an excuse for XXX sex content. Brad's story line about evil and highly placed community figures served by a secret sex club is pure corn, with Samantha Saint and Barrett Blade cast as the cops trying to nail its operators.
Xander Corvus is the fall guy who gets busted by uncredited cop Tyler Knight in the opening scene, and is later caught between the club and the police. A violent scene of him being murdered by hit lady Jessie Volt is unusual in self-proclaimed mainstream "nonviolent" porn, and perhaps serves as a wake-up call to any unlikely viewer watching 4 straight hours of this stuff uninterrupted.
The majority of sex scenes feature Asa, who is proudly uninhibited, notably in a showy set-piece of humping James Deen in the back of a limo driving around town, with anal-sex and even a champagne bottle thrust into her anus at one point. Film painstakingly glamorizes her profession, and is proudly amoral in concocting a phony happy ending of her escaping the police to live a new life on some tropical island.
Interestingly enough, Brad includes as bonus 3 lengthy sex scenes not included in the main feature, which would have added another 48 minutes to its running time. In one of these, he gets to hump Asa as her unscrupulous lawyer, and it is evident that that scene was part of a different ending in which Asa gets caught. Also, Blade gets to hump his partner Samantha in the extra footage, while in the main 4-hour program he is reduced to a peripheral, non-sex role.
Saint is seriously miscast as the busty police detective who goes undercover at great risk in an attempt to get the goods on the folks running the secret club. Her plastic beauty (yet another Jenna Jameson wannabe) and poor acting is inappropriate for the role -only looking all too convincing as a high-priced hooker after her transformation. Keni Styles has a fun role as a fashion designer who pretends to be gay (mandatory for his chosen profession) but proves otherwise when humping Asa and Saint in a threesome, and presenting latter with a call girl wardrobe in return.
I grade Brad's work on a sliding scale compared to the resources he commands: he 's one of the few pornographers who is accorded unlimited budgets (by Wicked) for some of his projects. This one has an all-star cast, ample location photography and nearly laissez faire cutting (4 to 5 hours for the finished version), so his underachievement is alarming. Final reels are devoted to an endless orgy that reduces many a superstar (Remy LaCroix, Kaylani Lei, Summer Brielle) to mere bit player.
Oddest takeaway is that slicked up as a slimy john Brad looks uncannily like the great British star Patrick Macnee circa his "The Avengers" TV hit of the '60s. If only he exuded a fraction of Macnee's class.