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Reality 10: The Ladder of Love Review

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Reviewed by Gabriel Nine  on  3/27/2003
Private Reality 10: The Ladder of Love
Studio:
Private
Director:
Kovi / Youngman & Walton / Jean-Yves Le Castel / Gianfranco Romagnoli
Cast:
Myli, Daniella, Dora Venter, Nicky Black, Michelle Wild, Cintia, Kate, Eva, Bailey, Tony De Sergio, Ian Scott, Steve Holmes, Csoky Ice, Robert Rosenberg, David Perry, Mr Marcus, Franco Roccaforte, Greg Centauro, Frank Gun
Running time:
80mins
Video Format:
NTSC / All regions
Audio Format:
Dolby 2.0


Michelle Wild in racy red makes another Private box cover look mighty enticing (though the ad for a text message service is a tacky and unwanted feature) but I can't help wondering if this is merely window dressing for a series that's barely hit the heights when I've dipped in to it. Five scenes, two reports and an admittedly appealing cast - let's see what use is made of these resources.

Sex on the Dance Floor - Dora Venter, Michelle Wild

In a risible set-up used to explain away the bizarrely (and cheaply - it's so easy to tell it's a Kovi production) decorated studio, Bailey welcomes Michelle and Dora, along with Tony De Sergio, to his "under-construction" nightclub. The girls get up and bump and grind to some abysmal cheesy dance music (think 2 Unlimited, but shit…yes, that bad), their sexy stockings taking me on a more welcome nostalgia trip to the porn mags of my youth. Then we find Michelle sucking cock, Dora receiving cunnilingus and off we go with some fairly modest sex featuring these consummate professionals. Anal arrives quickly, Dora taking it in spoons, Michelle in a tit-quaking reverse cowgirl, and then to a sturdy DP for Dora. Finally, the girls each stroke a guy off on their faces. If by some amazing chance you don't know these gorgeous girls by now, watch something else to get acquainted (say 110% Natural 4 for Michelle, Animal Trainer 8 for Dora). Here they make the moves, pull the faces and generally waste their abundant sexual talents. Nice tracking shots though.

Private Tropical 2: Sunrise - Report
Here's some advertising…sorry, reportage on the second instalment of the Private Tropical line, "Alessandro Del Mar" at the helm of more Caribbean carry-ons (though the production notes list the location as Cannes, oddly enough). It's hardly revelatory, and the highlight for me is hearing the prim English narrator telling us about girls getting "savagely fucked". How amusing. Otherwise, it's all about a few glimpses of the girls, many familiar Czechs, and locations and that's about it.

Change The Plan - Myli, Nicky Black
Back to the sex action, with a neat enough though excessively brief Kovi-directed scene featuring the talents of the inestimable buxom blonde Myli and nicely busty, dark-haired Nicky (a new face to me, as far as I can recall). When their plans for the evening fall through, they quickly get into a group grope with Steve Holmes and Yannick "Ian" Scott. Bespectacled cutie Nicky blows Yann, who fucks her doggy style while she's sucking Steve, while he in turn works a dildo into Myli's nether regions, as preparation for the truly filling DP that she soon experiences. Nicky dildo stuffs her own pussy before the girls get splashed down with come; Myli takes Ian's load on her face and then dribbles it on Nicky's specs while Steve shoots his wad. Messy, but fun, I think! This scene isn't a total disaster by any means, the girls look good in black nylons and it all rattles along at pace - it's just far too short, feeling like it's over before it's begun, and a tacky lens filter effect serves to obscure more than it enhances.

All for Money - Cintia
Andrew Youngman and John Walton at the helm for this scene, as slim but still curvy Cintia, a stunning platinum blonde with striking blue eyes, strides purposefully into the office of businessman Csoky Ice, looking for money. He's reluctant, so she uses her feminine wiles, if that's what getting down and sucking his cock means, to persuade him. Being a gentleman, he gets down and licks her in return. They fuck in missionary on the desk, then to doggy and reverse cowgirl but aside from a couple of sexy little glances and a dazzling smile when he pops on her face, it's all deeply lacking inspiration. Cintia is extremely easy on the eye but sexually the scene caused nary a stirring in my pants. Is that too much information? Sorry.

Love is in the Web - Report
More promotion for another Private movie (Kovi in charge of a You've Got Mail take-off), but at least this report actually features some interviews, no matter how sketchy, with the stars, including Michelle Wild again. No matter, she is gorgeous charming etc. I guess this sequence has most likely been cribbed from the Private satellite channel, but still, the sexy female reporter asking really daft questions of people while they are literally on the job is quite entertaining. Steve Holmes has off-camera fun, Nick Lang eats Tiffany's twat while being interviewed, but asking Sandra Iron what she's doing while riding a cock really takes the biscuit.

Countess Caprices - Kate, Daniella
In a Jean-Yves Le Castel scene that's a cut-down contemporary to Kate's gangbang efforts in X-treme 3: 18 Birthday Presents, the elegant brunette takes on several guys (Perry, Centauro, Holmes, Roccaforte, Rosenberg and Mr Marcus) provided for her, as if by magic, by maid Daniella, that sexy blonde for whom I have developed a certain affection through her many appearances over the last year or so. The stocking-clad girls quickly get into sucking the guys, preparing them for the sex. Vaginal penetration is brief, anal arrives quickly again, swiftly followed by robust DPs and characteristic Le Castel traits of debatable value - gaping female anuses and the queue of masturbating men waiting their turn. The girls are well fucked by scene's end, as Kate takes several facials (though not all the guys' ejaculations are shown) and very sexily swaps come and kisses with Daniella. While it's well done and its brevity leaves no room for most of the clichés of a gangbang scene, yet again, the scene is too short to be anything other than a taster for these girls' sexual prowess.

Sex on the High Seas - Eva
Directed by man of many parts Gianfranco Romagnoli (and on this evidence I wonder if porn director is the least of them), this little story set on a majestic sailing ship on a sparkling sea (a location that causes exposure issues the cameraman doesn't quite rectify) features the cute Ukrainian Eva, AKA Alexandria. She's got such a beautiful face, and I love the way she wrinkles up her nose as David Perry licks her pussy. It does take a bit to really get her involved though, and another brief romp like this isn't at all what I am after. Still, it's relatively easy on the eye even if some of the choice of shots is baffling (are we really meant to be admiring David's legs?). David and Eva start off kissing as he whisks away her bikini; they're swapping oral favours and then fucking, before Frank Gun joins in. He fucks her ass in doggy, there's a brief DP and then Eva has both men come on her face. I'm sorry to report that this is quite simply an exceptionally flimsy scene.

Overall
Let's go back to that box cover, because it's indicative of the nature of the movie. Just like the pictures of the burgers in fast food restaurants, this image offers a tasty temptation. Yet just like the food in these places, what the customer actually receives comes as a disappointment by comparison with that oh-so alluring image. It's all about superficially enticing packaging, with very little substance. While the procession of truly gorgeous girls in sexy outfits of one form or another is unabated, Private Reality 10 has to be one of the weakest products I've ever seen from this company. By weak, I mean in terms of quality rather than sexual content - there's some strong sex on offer.

Sure, as I well know, some of their magazine format series contained some fairly modest material in the past, but this is really silly - at least two or three of these could have been much more substantial scenes if given a little more time rather than being hacked to bits. Okay, so this is the format for this type of series, but it seems much worse than before. It's an approach that treats the material as a disposable commodity, though long-term observers of Private will see this as wholly in keeping with the current direction (or lack thereof) of the company. As it is, the five proper sex scenes whiz by, only amounting to a paltry hour or so of the running time - nearly twenty minutes is taken up with the reports on Sunrise and Love is in the Web. It's simply poor value for money, and can't be recommended.

DVD Comments
As usual, it's a slick package, with tidy menus, lots of languages and subtitles on offer. The extras are scanty, though, cast notes and photos, trailers and production information are just about your lot, with a now-standardised DVD-Rom package for computer users. The picture quality, allowing for some questionable decisions by the directors, is respectable; the sound is fine though once more this means some really crap music comes across loud and clear.



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