Public Affairs (Vivid) Review

Reviewed by Draken  on  4/20/2002

Public Affairs
Studio: Vivid
Production Date: Depends on which one you trust more. The case says it was produced on 8/98 and duplicated on 9/01. However, the movie says it was produced on 11/01 and duplicated on 12/01.

Previewing Expectations:
While looking over the case insert for this feature, I noticed it was dual sided. One side is the PG rated version with tame thumbnail photos, the ohter is X rated with graphic thumbnails. How do they decide which side is visable when it is shipped out, or does it vary depending on which retailer it is being sent to? Yes, the odd little things I think about when looking at the case of a porn DVD, and for the record, the tame side was out when I received it. There is a sticker applied to the case which says "Vivid DVD 4 hours of Interactive Fun" so this should be a fairly long feature. The brief writeup on the back sounds sort of like the whole Clinton sex scandal. There's even a promising little line that says "This disc contains more features than any other DVD disc to date". Since the exact date of release is uncertain, I didn't spend the time to disprove this.

The Action
The plot opens with the congressman and his mistress in a no name diner, thinking no one there will recognize him. What they don't realize is his wife and a friend are there watching his every move. He goes to the bathroom and the mistress soon follows. She blows him, then he goes down on her and even does a bit of rimming. He takes her vaginally wearing a condom. The sex here is only average and ends with him masturbating on her tits. Just as they are finishing up, the wife and friend walk in. The wife says he just lost everything, her, the house, the election. Ok, so it isn't totally like the Clinton deal, this guy actually suffered after getting caught...

Anyhow, we cut to the congressman and his lawyer talking about setting up his wife to make it look like she was unfaithful first. Another scene cut finds us watching an artist sketching a woman. He takes a break, with sex soon to follow. It starts with him going down on her, he gets a blow job, and vaginal sex with a condom. This couple is pretty energetic and she's quite vocal. It ends with him wacking off onto her tits.

Next scene is the wife at home with a couple she's hiring to redecorate her home. The guy is the artist from the previous scene. The woman tells the wife some sob story then devises a way to get the guy out of there. After he leaves, they drink some wine and share breakup stories. The woman is lonely and puts the moves on the wife. She soon goes down on the wife. We see her purse has a hidden video camera in it recording the action. The wife breaks out two dildos and they take turns working each other with them. This pretty hot scene ends abruptly and we find the wife alone in bed nude. The artist is sketching her. She wakes up, they talk a bit and he leaves.

Next we see the lawyer paying off the girl after watching part of the video of her and the wife. This gets them pretty hot, and the girl blows and deep throats the lawyer. He takes her vaginally with a condom then anally. In this scene, her acting seems a bit over the top, with her eyes rolling back into her head and what not. He comes manually on her neck.

Soon, the congressman is in the lawyer's office watching the video. The artist comes in and doesn't accept his payment. Instead he takes the video and leaves. The artist gives the video to the wife, who thinks she's being blackmailed. He doesn't take payment from her either, and just gives the video to her. He then takes off her dress and goes down on her, doing some rimming in the process. He gets a blow job from her. As a side note, she really needs to stop leaning forward. Her fake tits look horrible when they hang down perpendicular to her body. Some protected vaginal sex follows and ends with him masturbating on her ass.

We cut to a press conference with the congressman. Someone asks about problems with his wife, and he lies his ass off. The ex-mistress rushes the stage and tells everyone they've been fucking for the last three years. Security pulls her off the stage and the movie ends.

Audio, Vide and Extras:
This is one of the worst audio tracks I've heard in a long time. It sounds very tinny and like it was in mono, not stereo. During the sex scenes, some music was dubbed in which did sound quite nice, in stereo even, but that simply pointed out just how bad the rest of the audio really was. The video wasn't very sharp, and at parts, especially towards the beginning, looked like it was transfered from reel to reel film as there appeared to be qutie a few scratches and dust particles in it. Apparently the set where this was filmed was quite hot, as they all were sweating quite a bit during the sex scenes, which may turn some viewers off. Parts of the video seem dated, as there was a new looking Ford Probe at one point, and a PC with a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. It has been many years since I've seen one of those! I only counted about 2 hours for the feature. The only way they are getting four hours out of this is if they count all of the multiple angles into that total. Each sex scene has three angles for the viewer to choose from. Since only one can be viewed at a time, I feel the four hours claim to be a bit misleading. Ready for that impressive list of extras? It starts with "Fetish Rooms" which is much like the Fetish menu on Evil Angel DVD's. The fetish rooms has these categories: BJ, cowgirl, pussy eating, anal, girl/girl, and doggy. Then there are two Bonus Rooms, where each one is a scene from another movie. Seems a bit like a preview to me. Then there are 4 previews of other movies, the typical photo gallery, and an ad for their web site. So far, this seems on par with Evil Angel releases, the only thing putting it over the top is the multiple angles.

Conclusion:
It has a current events type plot, and they stick to the plot line pretty well. The sex is mostly average with a few hotter scenes thrown in. This video would have been pretty highly rated, but the poor audio track is the one thing really dragging this down. If you can live with that, you should find this to be a pretty enjoyable movie.