Speed

Wicked Pictures

All Region NTSC

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Since the Erotica issue of Synergy a while ago (Volume 3 Issue 2) was so popular it’s obvious where your interests lie. This offering from Wicked Pictures is a very high quality production technically but how does it measure up as entertainment? Not always well, I’m afraid.

One notable factor in its favour is a reasonably credible plot involving criminal bikers to tie all the sex scenes together. This is a little reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s films where the plot was significant, often of equal importance to the sex scenes. While Speed doesn’t go that far it at least attempts a plot and you get some good shots of cunning stunts on motorbikes.

Unfortunately it is let down by the cast. It would be hard to imagine a group of more unreal-looking characters. Most are comic-book caricatures. Comics are certainly the only place where you would be likely to find such a group of freaks. One poor girl has such monumental implants that her breasts are spherical and her chest looks like two bowling balls glued to a wall. The men are generally tough-guy types, but look like they would have trouble walking past a mirror. Most have trouble acting.

The sex scenes (and let’s face it, that’s why you will buy the DVD) are all stylised in the manner of the 1990s – high heeled shoes on the women while in bed, the usual “Oh ! Oh ! fuck me ! fuck me !” dialogue, and, of course, the Incredible Disappearing Condom. It will be there during sex to appease the Safe Sex mob but will magically disappear just before the money shot. It is this stylisation that leads me to think that the industry has stalled. There is little original about the film apart from a plot and superb technical quality.

So what now? Will the industry continue to produce formula films like this or will it find new directions? Speed is about as good as it gets in the present interpretation of the genre but what is there to encourage viewers to keep buying these films? The women are so full of silicone and collagen that they are simply grotesque. I really don’t find it the least bit titillating watching lumps of silicone fornicate. I found the motorbikes more attractive. Perhaps the genre should be handed over to the independents so they can kick their zombie obsession?

The Deluxe set includes two DVDs of “The Making Of …” with “extended orgy scene” and four bonus sex scenes. Well, wow.

While the it didn’t do much for me, if this sort of film is what you prefer then this is one of the best. In too many ways though I feel I’ve seen it all before.

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