Intensities In 10 Cities 2 Review

Reviewed by The Fly Is Open  on  4/3/2005

My quest to attain as much free porn as possible reached a high point recently, as a copy of this 2-DVD set was shipped to me by none other than Brandon Iron himself, the reward of correctly identifying the title of Platinum X Pictures‘ first release. Attached to the case was a note from Brandon asking for my feedback in the form of a short review. My two cents are the least I could give in exchange for the free discs, but Mr. Iron, let me tell you, the Fly never does anything short!
Intensities in 10 Cities is a very intriguing concept for a porn series: find beautiful women to film in exotic locations. It's an idea that can easily make for great viewing and great stroking, but it's one that can easily backfire. The location must bring a unique element to what happens onscreen; if that isn't the case, it doesn't matter whether the scene takes place in Prague or the Canary Islands or Los Angeles. I don't exactly expect a comprehensive erotic travelogue, but that certainly would not hurt. Personally, I think this might be just an elaborate excuse for Brandon and his buddies to travel and get laid on Platinum X's dollar, but then again, if I was in their shoes, I'd to the same thing.
Which brings me to another factor which may help or hurt my rating for this movie: there is only one girl on the cast list (Jasmine Byrne) that I recognize. This title appears to showcase a lot of fresh talent, or at least fresh to me, as I have a tendency to avoid titles featuring mostly European talent; to become really tuned into a scene, I need to be able to catch a glimpse of a girl's personality, which is hard to do when the actress has little or no grip on the English language. There are always exceptions to the rule, of course, and hopefully Intensities in 10 Cities 2 will be one of those. 11 Girls. 7 Men. 10 Cities. Will it earn a passing grade in my book?

DISC 1
Scene 1 - Berlin: Suzanne and Victoria
Our first geography lesson of the evening comes from Steve Holmes in front of the Kaiser Wilhelm Church in Berlin, "Destroyed by the Americans...like (they're) going to destroy some European ass." You see, I'm learning stuff already! Perhaps this can pave the way for a whole line of pornographic educational videos: just picture a girl like Haley Paige reciting the Gettysburg Address between sucking on two dicks. Oh, the potential!
Oh, right, the movie. Steve is with two Hungarian girls, Suzanne and Victoria. Suzanne is an average-looking blonde (perhaps bleached), while Victoria is dark-haired and petite, almost Asian-looking. Steve brings the girls with him up to his room, where Suzanne starts giving a very nice striptease. This girl knows what she's doing. Victoria then brings out Steve's cock for a blowjob. Out of nowhere, John Strong appears from behind the camera to give the blonde something to suck on. Victoria starts to undress before the scene fades to more hardcore action.
Before you know it, Suzanne is lowering herself onto Strong's schlong. This Hungarian girl has a lovely pussy: shaved without a hint of stubble, with a nice piercing on top. She jumps off to give herself and Vicki a sampling of her pussy juices before taking John in the ass. giving her brunette friend some more time sucking off Steve. The two trade places, with the blonde going cowgirl on Steve and the brunette getting it doggy from John. Steve lays his girl on the couch to get a taste of her pussy before taking fucking her in the ass in the same position. Meanwhile, the brunette gets on top of John for some more cowgirl. Throughout this part, the two girls give this sort of tongue-fencing exhibition. They can't quite make it to each other's mouths to kiss, so they just stick out their tongues and jab them around.
Of course, when Steve and John are in the same room, you know that someone's going to get DP'ed, and Suzanne's the first recipient of their treatment. Poor Vicki doesn't look like she knows what to do until guys pull out of the blonde's holes for her to suck on. Lucky for her, Steve gives up on the DP to give her a cock to ride in her pussy. As an added plus, it gives us an unobstucted view of Suzanne's ass-gaping show.
Fifteen minutes into the scene, and the Victoria is clearly being outperformed by Suzanne. While the blonde is getting an intense anal workout at the hands of John Strong, she hasn't even moved beyond vaginal. Things especially don't look good for her once, after another trade-off, John gives her a pretty short stint in reverse cowgirl before moving to Suzanne's pussy for another DP. Once again, Vicki is relegated to aucking the dick out of her blonde counterpart's ass. The position is changed so that John, still in the blone's pussy, assumes the anchor position while Steve penetrates from behind. A small hand fondling Steve's balls is about the only sign that there is a fourth partner in this scene by now, until - you guessed it - Steve pulls out of Suzanne's rectum again for Victoria to suck on.
After some quick cutting between Steve and Vicki in missionary and John and Suzanne in cowgirl anal, it's time for the cumshot. In touch with the one-sidedness of the scene, Suzanne gets both loads in her mouth, and swallows without even giving Vicki a taste. Some friend she is.
Grade:If this scene only featured Suzanne, and if it were a little longer (it clocked in at a only about 22 minutes long), I would give it a high grade. Unfortunately, Victoria seemed very displaced throughout the scene, which threw off the chemistry a great deal. Therefore, I can only give it a C. Still, not bad for an opener; with 9 cities left to go, I can safely bet that the scenes will show steady improvement.

Scene 2 - St. Petersburg: Priscilla
Another city, another landmark, another church, this time St. Isaac's Cathedral. Considering what kind of movie Brandon Iron is shooting, doesn't using a house of worship as a backdrop a rather odd decision? Pet peeve aside, Brandon's with Priscilla, a tall (at least in this shot) Ukrainian with light brown hair and another slim, tight Eastern European body. The two don't spend too much time inside before cutting to Priscilla spread out on a red leather sofa, putting her fingers at work on her nipples and her pussy. She reaches for this weird-looking barber pole-like double dildo, sucking on it and fucking her pussy with it. I guess barber poles are red, not black, but that's the closest thing I could come up with. It's not important, though: Brandon doesn't hesitate too long to stick his face and fingers there.
His pants drop, and Priscilla's lip become attached to his penis head like a magnet on a rod of steel. She doesn't take him very deep, though. Brandon needs to eat her pussy a little more before he starts fucking her. One question, though: How great does her pussy have to taste to start sucking on her toes? Is there some sort of corelation?
Priscilla's legs are spread wide out and up. This is probably the best position to capture straight-up vaginal sex. You can see the the actual fucking, her facial reactions, her breasts bobbing up and down, her legs twitching as he's thrusting in and out. I could watch this the entire scene, but the scene ultimately goes to doggy. Not that watching a chick getting fucked from behind is a bad thing.
Priscilla really appears to be enjoying herself in this scene. And my knob really appears to enjoy watchin her ass bounce up and down while watching her ride Brandon's dick. They share some more interludes in my favorite position, spliced in with some reverse cowgirl and Priscilla lowering her slit onto Brandon's face, before the popshot, which she swallows.
Grade:This isn't a very intense scene, but rather it shows a genuine intimacy between the two performers. I don't necessarily need to see a woman's anus dilated to extremes in every scene, just as long as the people on screen really enjoy what they're doing, like this. I give it a B.

Scene 3 - Vienna: Gloria Gucci
Since hometown boy Mick Blue is running late, Brandon gives us a little video tour of the Austrian capital. Seriously, this is the first porn movie that I've seen that I can skip scenes to look like I'm watching the Travel Channel if someone walks by. But it's still a porn movie, so we do run into Mick, who apparently was out to buy some chocolates for cover girl Gloria, who is quite stunning in her polka-dotted dress. The two wind up in a rustic stairwell, where the clothes start hiking up and dropping down. Gloria is kneeling to give Mick the blowjob. You can hear footsteps in the background; I wonder if they are even supposed to be shooting here. It doesn't matter to Mick, who leans Gloria against the wall and pulls her thong aside to gain access to her pussy. Let me say that a corner gives two people many more potential sex positions than one may think, and this scene proves it.
They do decide to make their way up the stairs (Mick does, at least: he just carries Gloria with him), moving the scene to a much more conventional bed. Mick devotes a lot of time to Gloria's glistening snatch. After he goes down on her, they both finish undressing, she sucks his cock, and they start fucking in spoons for a while. During this shot, I notice that this girl sure has a lot of moles. She might want to let a doctor look at a few of those. They move to doggy, then some cowgirl after she tastes her juices, which she does again before switching over to reverse cowgirl. While being ridden, Mick fingers Gloria's ass gor a little bit: I wonder if after the last scene, she'll give in to a little anal.
At this pace, though, I don't think Mick could make it there, especially after he starts hammering her again from behind. But no, I stand corrected! A little spit, and he's in that ass! He starts slow, but he then really begins to bring up the pace fucking her ass from behind. They shift to cowgirl anal, but not before Gloria sucks him off from her asshole. The cowgirl anal goes on for what seems to be a long time before breaking for gapes and ass to mouth. Once they do come, it is a sign that the cumshot is near, but Mick doesn't have quite the aim as the guys in the first two scenes do. He comes in Gloria's mouth and on her face, with some landing on her chest. She doesn't really swallow it, just plays a lot with it with her mouth and Mick's dick.
Grade: Like I had anticipated, the scenes here have shown a progressive improvement. This scene once again displayed a great chemistry between the two performers. Combine the abundance of pussy licking and the inclusion of good anal in this scene, I believe I can grant it an A. On a downer note, though, I don't know how I am supposed to critique seven more scenes.

Scene 4 - Ottawa: Katrina
For the first time, Brandon isn't introducing the scene in front of a church. He's pretty angry about getting a speeding ticket: luckily, Katrina's there to cool off with. She's another cute local girl with nice eyes. In the back seat of a car, in traffic, she blows Brandon and gives him a footjob. This man better watch out, or else he's going to have a much bigger fine to pay.
The camera angle switches around during the beginning of the scene. When Katrina is giving Brandon the blowjob, or when he's on top of her, he holds the camera in a POV angle. When he eats her out, and when she rides him, the camera's wedged between the two front seats. Once they find a secluded road, though, Katrina leans out the door while being fucked on her side. Brandon then stands outside while Katrina leans into the car as he nails her from behind. After that, it's just your normal sex with the girl lying on your hood. It looks like a bird pooped where she'd lie back on, so she just kind of props herself up over the car.
You know, the weather outside in this scene doesn't look idea for public sex. It's overcast, the wind is howling: I have to give props to Brandon for keeping his usual massive erection in those conditions.
Some farmers break up their outdoor scene, so the scene ends on a couch in Montreal. Does that mean it's really eleven cities? The two make the rounds - cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, doggy - mixed in with a little more foot worship from Brandon. It ends with a cum mustache right across Katrina's upper lip.
Grade: This scene tries hard, but there are too many changes in location to give it much continuity. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, though, and because of that, and because it made me laugh, I'll give it a C+.

Scene 5 - Lanzarote: Jasmine Byrne
OK, no one is quite sure where they are in this scene. Lanzarote is a one of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic. Don't worry. I didn't know where Lanzarote was before watching this, either. What I do know is that I'm absolutely in love with Jasmine Byrne, who is the reason that I would have sought this DVD even if the director did not give a copy away to me. She's there with some guy named Jazz Duro, whom I haven't seen before. He gives Jasmine a few Spanish lessons, which I wouldn't think she really needs, but I could always be wrong.
From the coast, the scene cuts to some kind of deck, where Jazz and Jasmine waste no time in smothering each other (Jasmine says she hasn't even been on the islands for more than an hour). Jasmine is down on her knees quickly, sucking him off. She has such a jiggly little ass, though, that he can't help but to start playing with it. Her pussy is a treasure in itself, so he needs to fuck it out of the deck as well. They walk through their hotel room to another deck for some reason to resume whare they left off, Jasmine resting over a chair. Jasmine's really trying to be quiet here: she looks like she's begging to scream out loud, but always holds it back.
With that in mind, Jazz carries Jasmine back inside. The move allows Jasmine to cry out a little while he's banging her pussy, mainly in some kind of spoon variation. He makes the move to her ass, and she lights up. The face that she gives on that first penetration is priceless. She's buggered in spoon, she's buggered from behind, her ass gapes like the hole she's left inside my mind. (The preceding sentence shows why I'm not a poet.) During the ass-fucking from behind, she takes some deep ass to mouth a few times, even gagging a little. Some more spoon anal is included before Jazz rolls over and Jasmine kneels over her for the cumshot. As with all pops from a lying position, it makes more of a mess around his groin than anything, but Jasmine happily licks it up.
Grade: Oh, Jasmine. If I wanted to give a biased grade here, this scene would be an A+ to infinity. Since that breaks reviewing protocol, and I need to put behind my blind infatuation, I'll concede that this was likely the second-best scene thus far. Jasmine seemed to be wearing less makeup than she usually does, which solidifies how beautiful she really is (at least to me). I will give it an A-. That's one disk down, and one more to go. With five scenes yet, I have to take a break for the night, and continue on tomorrow. Of course, you wouldn't know that from this review, so why am I revealing it?

DISC 2
Scene 1 - Barcelona: Sylvia Lancome
Standing in front of a cathedral once again, Brandon is looking for Barcelona’s Museum of Erotica. He finds Toni Ribas with Sylvia. Toni thinks the museum is a waste of time compared to the woman standing next to her. Sylvia’s okay-looking; like a lot of European girls, her look is more mature, and her face isn’t going to appear on any currency, but her body is tight. She is wearing some weird-ass shoes, though.
The scene moves to Toni’s apartment, where we get some nice shots of Sylvia’s ass as she’s giving a blowjob to Toni. Not wanting to play such a passive role, Toni gets up for some more forceful oral. He lies her down on the couch, and aggressively fingers her to an orgasm, letting her lick herself off her hand. Sylvia climbs atop his cock for some cowgirl. Toni slides a few fingers in her pussy as well, along with his cock.
There’s some more spoon fucking, nice and hard, as you’d expect from Toni. They both take turns fingering her clit, which is good, because there’s something about her landing strip that distracts me. I think it’s leaning a little to the left. Toni dives his fingers into her pussy again, with some more PTM following. He fucks her pussy for a short time more before moving into her ass, still in the spoon. These porn studs really make me jealous. They can really fuck these girls at a really fast pace, even in their assholes. I can’t even make that kind of rapid pistoning with no resistance, let alone with my dick in such a tight hole. That’s why they get paid to do it, and why I pay to watch. C’est la vie.
She then gets into some reverse cowgirl anal. Without much of a warning, Toni picks her up so she can suck his cock out of her ass. It’s a blink-and-you-miss it kind of transition. You don’t miss the ATM, though., and you certainly don’t miss the return to RCA. There’s some more ass to mouth mixed in, then the scene cuts to cowgirl anal. Toni’s slapping her ass like a beach ball before another break for ass to mouth, and a switch to doggy, then the pop, which goes all over her face. The aim was good, but the trajectory way a bit off.
Grade: Disc 1 had set the bar pretty high, and I was skeptical to see if the first scene on Disc 2 would carry that momentum, or if it would be a bit of a dud like the opener of Disc 1. Luckily, the first scene met the task. Sylvia is one of those women who don’t look too special posing, but really improves during the sex. I give it a B+.

Scene 2 - Trois-Rivieres: Emily Steele
If you’re an auto racing geek like me, you know that Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, is home to a prestigious street race every summer. There’s also a bridge and a jail, and a lot of horny girls (if you want to go by what Brandon is telling us). One of those horny girls is Emily, Who is sporting a grey sweatsuit and curly blond hair. Her chest shows a bizarre display of body art symmetry: her right nipple is pierced, while a tattoo of a sort of bunny cartoon is above her opposite breast. As she’s blowing him, I recognize the couch they’re near from Katrina’s scene on Disc 1, meaning that there was nothing worth hanging around to fuck in at Trois-Rivieres. Did they run into some trouble with the locals again?
I don’t get Emily’s ass. The thing doesn’t jiggle. She can ride Brandon all she wants, and he can spank her into Labrador, but her rump stays as firm as an apple. There’s some reverse cowgirl, and there’s still no movement anywhere on her body, and I notice that her clit jewelry shares an approximate size and shape with a key ring. Is it the key that opens her box?
They do some more fucking in spoons and doggy. Emily isn’t showing too much enthusiasm. Her “oohs” and “yeahs”sound forced, and her facial expressions look labored as well. That doesn’t stop Brandon from devouring her feet. He unloads his jizz on her nose, where it hangs over to the side.
Grade: After seven scenes, shooting the same positions over and over can start to grow stale if the performers appear to be going through the motions, like Emily does here. In addition, the fact that she wears more jewelry than a small-time appraiser was a turn-off for me. The weakest scene yet. C-.

Scene 3 - Budapest: Kira
Steve makes an encore appearance. He doesn’t look quite as suave as he did in Berlin, but the blonde girl with him is an upgrade to either ones he was hanging around with there. Steve wastes no time with her, putting his dick right in her ass from behind. Kira doesn’t speak much English, so we have to settle with more “oohs“ and “ahs” from her. Her eyes stay wide open while Steve nails her ass. Her eyes aren’t as animated when she does the first ass to mouth.
Everything about this girl is pale and pink. I don’t see one patch of brown or tanned skin on her. Steve fucks away during reverse cowgirl, and she looks stunned for a moment before she’s held up for a gape shot. Her depths are getting plundered, and her asshole gapes wide open every time Steve pulls it up for the camera to see.
Kira might not speak English, but at least her face isn’t stuck in deer-in-the-headlights mode. She shows some life I this scene, even in cowgirl anal. The scene comes to an end rather quickly, and to make matters worse, she moves to ruin the cumshot. Steve actually looks quite pissed about the whole event, but since is is a “perverted, horny God” (as the caption puts it), he can jerk off for a few seconds and give her another (smaller) load. She says something in Hungarian, which is translated into “I’m sorry I’m a cum-dodger.” Can I get a verification on that quote?
Grade:This scene had a lot of potential, but between the quick finish and the blown money shot, it dribbled to a climax (no pun intended). Even with the little accident, I would have given it a good grade had it been longer, but at an inexcusable fourteen minutes long, I have to slap a D onto this scene. It would have been great bonus footage.

Scene 4 - Quebec City: Lena Bacci
The second disc is snowballing, and I only hope that they make up for it in Quebec. Brandon’s straddling a cannon: I’ll take that a good omen. He says they have no time to explore Quebec, so they have to make back to their room. The room has a great view, that we see for a few seconds before moving back inside. It looks cold again in Quebec, so I don’t blame them.
Lena’s a skinny one. She has this dolphin tattoo over her navel and another one above her breast that I can’t make out before Brandon turns her over to rim her and shower her with more foot worship. Lena straddles his face later, treating him to some pussy to go along with her toes. When she lies out of the bed, I see that her tattoo is some lettering, like the one across her back. As for the Playboy bunny on her shoulder, I think that symbol is universal.
The blowjob is shot in a POV style for a few moments, but the camera moves down to her level once she starts licking her balls. We get to see some 69 afterwards, Lena on top of course. Lena enjoys his cock, but Brandon isn’t sure what body part to concentrate on, pussy or feet. Lena’s feet move away from him one the reverse cowgirl begins, leaving her feet only within the hand’s reach. The camera keeps filming from an angle based over Brandon’s shoulder, which goes away once he gets behind her as she’s on all fours.
It’s a squat doggy this time, giving a much better view of the penetration. After a few minutes of this, Brandon reintroduces my old favorite position from Disc 1 into the foray. I’d type more psychobabble here if I wasn’t too busy watching.
She gets into another cowgirl fucking. The plus is that you se a lot, but the downside is that hovering over Brandon doesn’t give her the opportunity to take his full length inside her. Do I want to see the illusion or the spectacle? They stay in cowgirl for a long time. When that ends, she merely turns around for the reverse. All this fucking without Lena’s feet to suck on must be killing Brandon at this point.
Cut to Lena’s ass sticking off the side of the bed, legs raised. Brandon’s there off the edge to fuck her pussy some more. Even with those feet right in his face, he doesn’t give them any special treatment. Has he lost his appetite? The cumshot comes, and he makes a mess out of Lena’s face. A very nice glaze of frosting for dessert.
Grade: Out of the three Canadian girls in this movie, I liked Lena the best. I don’t know if it was her looks, or the performance, or the fact that it was a hella long scene (nearly 29 minutes, over twice as long as the previous one), I was left satisfied. B+

Scene 5 - New York City: Randi Taylor
The final scene takes us to the center of the universe, Times Square, with a native New Yorker lamenting the loss of the hookers and peep shows, replaced with stores and TV studios. He wants to find a nice girl, but he can only find Randi. I can see why her picture isn’t on the box cover. She looks very whorish, and she could lose a few pounds, but I won’t dismiss the scene yet.
She’s gives a good blowjob, at least. She makes taking the guy’s dick in her mouth look easy. Once that’s finished, he eats her pussy and ass. He’s doing suck a good job at that, my only wish is that the camera would stop aiming at Randi’s face. Given the choice, I’d rather see the view down below.
The guy (whose name I don’t know) starts fucking her. She even starts sucking her toes as well. Judging by her feet, however, I don’t think that is such a good idea. He puts her in doggy, but her body flab is too shaky to bear at times. The camera captures some close-ups of her face, but that doesn’t provide much of a relief. I might have to stop for a snack break. Maybe some cottage cheese.
Well, there’s a cut to cowgirl. That hides her thighs a little. If it were real life, and I were a shallow bastard, I’d count on a trashy slut like this to at leat give up her asshole. That doesn’t happen here. The action switches to reverse cowgirl, then back to missionary, where the guy still sucks her toes, and she even gives him a foot job as he’s standing. The pop goes on her feet, with a little reaching her pussy. She kicks her legs up, and licks the cum off both feet.
Grade: Come on, Brandon, what happened with the casting in this scene? There has to be better talent in New York than this Long Island floozy! To be fair, the action in this scene was fairly good, but the fact remains that the girl was just rancid. C-.

Fitting with the closing setting, the movie ends with Times Square’s naked cowboy sending us off.

Extras
This movie has a buttload of them, on both discs. Along with the usual behind the scenes, photo gallery, web link, and cumshot recap, there are features on most of the cities in the movie, an annotated version of the first Intensities in 10 Cities, extended teases from Kira, Gloria, and Jasmine, a bio of Brandon Iron, and two bonus scenes. On Disc 1, there is an extra scene is a foot job/blowjob from Jasmine Byrne. On Disc 2, Brandon is going alone in Victoria, British Columbia with a girl named Lilith, who may or may not be a vampire. Both bonus scenes are great. Overall, the bonus scenes alone are enough to give Intensities in 10 Cities 2 a few hours of your time. Grade: A+

The Rest of the Stuff
Even in windy outdoor conditions, the audio is great. The video is clear, with the camera work being steady and capturing all the action. The lighting was good enough, considering the variation between indoor and outdoor settings, but could have been better in a few spots, particularly during Jasmine’s scene.

Final Thoughts
Taking each scene individually, Intensities in 10 Cities 2 is very hit or miss. The quality of the scenes range from excellent (Gloria and Jasmine’s scenes on Disc 1) to the absolutely abysmal (Kira on Disc 2), with a lot of variations in between. However, as a whole, this title is great, with its unique theme and abundant extras. The order of the scenes probably should have been changed, as Disc 1 is stronger than Disc 2, but that’s a minor gripe. With so much footage here, Intensities in 10 Cities 2 would be an excellent purchase, but you might not make it through the whole thing in one rental, so if you take that route, rent it twice.