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DVD REVIEWS
Undercover
AAAAA
MARC DORCEL/WICKED
PICTURES
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DIRECTOR: Hervé Bodilis, Ludovic
Dekan
CAST: Megan Rain, Mina Sauvage,
Cassie Del Isla, Rose Valerie, Apolonia
Lapiedra, Alexa Tomas, Ania Kinski,
Emilio Ardana, Ricky Mancini, Dorian
Del Isla, Philippe Soine, Adrian
Dimas, Kristof Cale, Alberto Blanco.
111 Min.
CATEGORY: FOREIGN FEATURE
stuff happens—and it makes sense later.
A speedboat speeds across a blue sea. Megan Rain takes
her cell phone and tells Emilio Ardana, “The job is done. I’ll
come now.” Ardana, sitting in a luxury multi-level seaside
home, turns to the two lingerie-clad lovelies with him and
UUndercover is a Mission: Impossible-style caper movie where
says, “Now we’re gonna have a good time.” When Rain joins
them, she is momentarily pissy (“I’m risking my life and
you’re fucking?”) but it doesn’t last (“Next time, wait for
me”) and she joins them for an impromptu four-way.
Rain phones a henchman (Ricky Mancini) and tells him,
“I brought you some souvenirs from Morocco. Invite me for
lunch.” He says he’ll book them a table “in two days’ time”
and she signs off with, “See you in Paris.” Mancini tells his
one-man-two-woman crew: “They’ve got the gear, so we can
get moving earlier than planned.” The plan is an armored car
robbery, which they execute almost flawlessly except for Rose
Sealed With a Kiss Mina Sauvage and Megan Rain
Valerie pulling off her clown mask to tauntingly kiss one of
the guards.
When the gang unbags the loot and loses the clown
masks, the henchman asks Valerie what the hell she was
doing: “You left your DNA there.” Valerie drops to her
knees and makes it up to him as another female gang
member asks, “Aren’t you going to share it?” All four
celebrate the successful robbery.
Back at the house, one of the girls (Mina Sauvage)
videochats her boyfriend in prison, stripping down and
masturbating for his pleasure as he watches. Rain and Mina
bring drugs (the “souvenirs from Morocco”) to Paris, and
exchange them for the stolen cash from the gang. When
they’re alone for the cash transfer, Mancini tells Rain,
“I missed you,” and after the others take off they drive
through the Paris night before we see just
how much they missed each other.
In a field the next day, Mina gets arrested
and the money gets confiscated. Rain gets
an angry phone call from Ardana (who is
her husband) saying Mina got arrested and,
“They took the money and we don’t have
anything. We never should have trusted
that French arsehole. Find him. Bring him
to me. I want to see him. He’s going to
have me to deal with.” When Mancini (the
French arsehole) emerges from the shower,
she tells him the call was nothing and asks
if there are any parties tonight. “I want to
have some fun.”
In custody, the police offer Mina the
chance to help her man in prison—if
she can give up Ardana. Rain goes to a
party with Mancini, then has Mancini
overpowered and abducts him to the luxury
house in Spain. When Ardana draws a gun
on Mancini, saying, “You’ve got my money!”
things come to a sudden, violent climax.
Undercover features high production
values—including drone shots and riveting
non-stock footage of Megan Rain driving
through Paris at night—plus a clever script
and solid sex from mostly-unaltered Euro-
performers. As has been the case in Dorcel
product the last few years, extensive use of
condoms makes the sex seem even more
casual.
—Tod Hunter
The Obsession
AAAA 1/2
SWEET SINNER/
MILE HIGH MEDIA
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DIRECTOR: Jacky St.
James
CAST: Abella Danger,
Chanel Preston, Reena
Sky, Adria Rae, Michael
Vegas, Jay Smooth,
Logan Pierce. 150 Min.
CATEGORY: DRAMA
EDITOR’S CHOICE | AVN.com
22016 AVN Best New Starlet Abella Danger
displays previously unmined thespian chops in one
of the past year’s most memorable performances
as the off-balance villainess of this Single White
Female-esque suspense drama from masterful
storyteller Jacky St. James.
Danger plays Michele, a quiet loner who’s
just moved in with co-worker Mandy (Chanel
Preston) and her boyfriend Alex (Michael Vegas).
When Mandy notices that Michele has done some
significant chores around the house without being
asked—organizing the cupboards, cleaning the
fridge—she decides to break her usual strict rule of
not crossing the roommate/friend boundary and,
as a gesture of thanks, gives Michele a matching
bracelet to one of hers that Michele previously
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Obsessors and Obsessees From left, Chanel Preston, Reena Sky, Abella Danger and Adria Rae.
admired. Bad move.
Michele instantly snaps into an intense and
unnerving obsession with Mandy that takes a turn for
the threatening when, during a weeklong visit from
Mandy’s sister Lucy and her fiancé Jay (Adria Rae and
Jay Smooth), she learns that Mandy has been carrying
on an affair with Jay for some time.
Amidst all this, Mandy and Alex have a torrid fuck in
their bedroom—which Michele spies on creepily from
the hallway shadows—and Lucy and Jay get it on in the
kitchen while everyone else is sleeping.
Growing increasingly wary of Michele’s behavior,
Mandy looks into her past and discovers that she has
a restraining order against her filed by another woman
(Reena Sky) for similarly menacing antics—triggered
after a sort-of three-way occurred between the two of
them and a man Sky brought home from a bar (Logan
Pierce) who soon became serious with her romantically.
If there’s any flaw in this movie, it’s that Michele’s
final act of malice feels a bit contrived, but it still
involves some raucous anal sex, so who are we to
question it?
All in all, another stellar example of Jacky St. James’
virtuosic command of adult cinema.
—Peter Warren