Anything That Moves Review

Reviewed by Corey Thomas  on  10/17/2008

John Leslie's "Anything That Moves", one of his shot-on-film endeavors for VCA Pictures, casts Selena Steele and Traci Winn as exotic dancers from opposite sides of the track drawn together by a strong bond and an undying friendship. Lucky (Selena Steele) is more of the tough-girl, "I'm not gonna take any of your bullshit" types, while Ronnie (Traci Winn), "always sees the best in people", especially in the case of her abusive, loser boyfriend Joey (Tim Lake).

The film begins with a video tape, the one clue to a murder that's not going to be as easy in solving as first expected. After talking to two detectives (Lee Chandler, Melony Moore), we are taken, via flashback, to Lucky being thrown out of a club. After calling the guy a "faggot who wouldn't know what to do with a woman", we are treated to the catchy title tune (as usual by jazz great Bill Heid) while the credits roll, which let us know that World Modeling did the casting (any porno movie that has a casting credit gets bonus points in my book) and Henri Pachard co-wrote the story and screenplay. After the jazzy number, the movie picks up again and follows the adventures of Lucky and Ronnie.

Ronnie, as usual, is having an argument with her boyfriend Joey (Tim Lake) and Lucky makes the mistake of getting in the middle of it. After apologizing, everything is good again, but it's only a matter of time before Joey's temper will emerge once more.

Cut to a bachelor party, where Ronnie and Lucky are working. After getting things started (a la money agreements), Lucky goes to the back with man of the hour Joel Klupper, while Ronnie stays to keep the other guys company. Being guys, however, company requires a little bit more than small talk with them. Because they gave all of their money to Lucky, though, Ronnie makes a compromise: She'll do two of them, with Nick Santiago and Randy Spears being the lucky guys in this case. Although we switch between both scenes, this scene is still way too drawn out and therefore loses momentum about halfway through.

Following this scene, Joey tries to make a pass at Lucky in her dressing room one night while Ronnie is out of the room. Hearing the commotion, Ronnie walks in and asks what's going on. Lucky storms out and Joey tries to tell Ronnie that she made a pass at him. She luckily doesn't believe him, but it does put a damper on their friendship, at least from Ronnie's perspective. They still go out on stage, though, and do quite a hell of a striptease that ends with them kissing and touching each other, bathed in a beautiful blue light. In the meantime, Joey gets it on with Cassidy in her dressing room, while some guy's watching.

This is the point where I'm not going to try to spoil much of the plot, but this is where Joey begins to get his comeuppeance. It doesn't end there, though, however, and some twists and turns lead us to our climax. While I won't spoil the conclusion for you, all I will say is everything is not what it appears to be.

While I didn't think the sex was great, there were some hot moments, the hottest probably being a threesome between Lake, Nick East, and the sexy Heidi Kat, while Lake and Nick take turns videotaping. This also ends in a little after treat that is as influenced by "Bad Lieutenant" as this movie is influenced by "Mortal Thoughts".

The strong points of this movie are the acting (especially by Selena Steele), photography, and music (as in most John Leslie films). The Howling Diablos also provide some nice score here, and it's obvious that this was not a low-budget film.

Overall, highly recommended to fans of adult film, John Leslie fans, or fans of film in general. Add this to your collection today, even if you don't like long sex scenes or barebones discs. ****1/2 out of *****.