Adriana Review

Reviewed by Wooster  on  3/15/2003

Andrew Blake's "Adriana" is a disappointment and a continuation of the tailing-off that his movies have made in the past couple of years from their fetishistic high of editions such as "High Heels" and "Exhibitionists".

Fetish - well, that's the problem, isn't it. Earlier Andrew Blake titles traded on his work for Penthouse, and they were a solid mix of truly beautiful women and genuinely erotic scenarios. There was plenty of stylish nudity, erotically-styled costumes and beautiful women finger-fucking. You'd get a token male who'd pork one of the ladies - usually as a punishment or to show her who was boss, but proceedings tended not to be in-your-face. It was like Penthouse but with fucking.

Like the two films that have preceded it, ("Justine" and "The Villa"), "Adriana" is moving away from that style into the realms of mild BDSM and the result is not very erotic. Connoisseurs of BDSM - of which I am most definitely not a fan - will undoubtedly find "Adriana" too tame, and fans of Blake's earlier works will probably find the movie too fetishistic. The movie is entirely populated by Blake's repertory company of models, there are no male members for any of the participants to play with. Adriana Sage (Blake has a liking for tall, dark beauties) is joined by regulars Justine and Aria Giovanni in a series of fetishistic vignettes involving mild bondage, leg and foot worship and one or two other mild kinks that will only appeal to those sharing Blake's particular fantasies.

There is little for raincoaters to get excited about. With no proper sex going on and even the girls on screen unable to get far by masturbation, the whole exercise is ultimately unsatisfying.

On the flip side of the disc are the usual bonus featurettes. There is a main featurette starring Dahlia Grey "Leg Teases" which, as the title suggests are simply opportunities for Dahlia to get naked and show off her (admittedly) impressive pins. Apart from a mild bit of stroking, there's little sexual going on. The other shorter featurettes are vignettes that could easily have been in the main feature on the other side of the disc and in fact the most erotic part of the whole disc - where Adriana Sage (trussed like a chicken) is on the receiving end of a glass dildo - is on the flip side among the extras.

All in all not one of Mr Blake's better efforts. If he wants to continue getting awards, he should consider getting Justine to go blonde again and having a bit more hot and sticky sex in his next opus.