Erstwhile's Rating:

Starring: Alexa Rae, Inari Vachs, Cheyenne Silver, Temptress, Lauren Montgomery, Danni Sexton, Anastasia Romanov, Eric Price, Jade Marcella, Herschel Savage, Tyce Bune.

The performances, both in terms of their sexual quality and the acting, are top-notch throughout.

Very high. Shot on film, stylishly directed but never distractingly so. Although this film has a sci-fi premise, it takes place inthe very near future, and so the images aren't cluttered with a lot of cheesy sets or costumes for the actors to compete with.

Very high. All the women have first-rate oral instincts and most are smoking, smoking hot. Alexa Rae and Inari Vachs, in particular, are powerhouses. One scene which has Inari and Cheyenne Silver (who's better here than I've ever seen her)first doing each other, and then taking turns on Eric Price, is so intense I had to fight to keep from coming, and all I was doing was watching. Alexa is very hot (though her obviously fake tits are a liabilit) and she has a movement to her ass when she's on top that made me so hard I thought I would faint.

Impossible to say. This is the rare porn film where all the elements--performance, gorgeous chicks, the premise, the plot, the music, the visual style--come together in a way that heightens the sexual energy rather than dissipates it. Nic Cramer has made a porn masterpiece.

Minor gripe: the come shots in the film tend to be the guy-jacks-off-on-the-girl's face/ass/whatever variety, rather than the more pro-active girl-sucks-or-jacks-the-guy-off onto herself. It's a personal preference.

That said, only one scene (in a full two-hour film) had my finger itching slightly on the fast-forward button. It's a sex-in-a-courtroom scene featuring Jade Marcella, who I didn't find particularly attractive, and the action was not quite up to the standard of the rest of the film. This was the only moment of its kind in the entire film however. I didn't even look at the remote for the rest of the picture.

I'll come right out and say it: This is the best porm film I've ever seen. I've been hoping someday to find the *perfect* porno--one in which sex and plot and style all compliment rather than detract from each other, one in which my sexual interest in the action never lags, even as my interest in the plot is kept alive. I'm an awfully tough customer. This film gets a nine (I've never seen a 10), but this is as close to perfect as I've seen yet.

The premise is lifted direcly from the 1995 futuristic thriller "Strange Days" (one of my favorite films of that year): in the near future, a technology has been developed which allows uses to inhabit the full sensory experiences of another person, trough little MiniDisc players connected by wires to the head. As in "Strange Days," a black market has developed around the making and trading of these discs, and the most popular of them involved high-risk crimes and, of course, sex with beautiful, dangerous women. "Strange Days" focused more on the addicts who get their kicks from playing these discs; "Trigger" is about the people ("profilers") whose job is to record them.

You know you're watching a different kind of porno from the first scene, which takes place within the context of one of the clips. A woman (Anastasia, I belive) goes down on the user in an elevator, and the camera never leaves the point-of-view of the lucky guy. It's a single, unwavering angle that seems to last for nearly ten minutes as he (we) watch her go down on us slowly, deliberately, almost never losing our eye contact. Even thoug I didn't find this woman to be the most attractive, the effect of the scene is mesmerizing.

Knowing that he can't shoot all of the sex scenes in a porno from single point-of-view shots, director Nic Cramer abandons the technique after this first scene, having effectively established the Trigger experience in the viewer's mind.

The sequence of events then alternates between scene in which sex clips are being made and played back, and sex between the players in the story itself. The sex never stops for more than a minute or so, and yet each scene propels us logically into the next. Occasionally, it's hard to discern whether what we're seeing is supposed to be reality or playback. but that only adds to the effect. Ultimately, it doesn't matter anyway, because all the actors in this film give breathtakingly hot performances.

Posted By Erstwhile, www.excaliburfilms.com | 10/12/06 1:58 PM