Taken (Grapik Art) Review

Reviewed by Joe Shaver  on  8/28/2004

I really don’t like the films from this studio. I find them phony, poorly done, boring, and grossly overpriced. So why did I view this one? The answer is Richie Fine. Now, I like Richie. He’s blond, he’s young, he’s handsome, he sucks dick, and he takes it up the ass. (And if you’ve seen him in FIRE ISLAND CRUISING 2: BOYS IN HEAT you know he’s a bit crazy as well.) If Richie’s in something, I’ll watch.

This one starts off with Richie walking through some scraggly undergrowth. He sees something. He flees. After the blackout we find Richie completely naked and bound. A hood and gag are over his head. He struggles helplessly trying to get free. As always in these films this goes on until it tries one’s patience. Since it’s Richie and since he’s got a hard-on, I watch. I observe that smooth body and those slender abs. I notice that he has beautiful feet.

The next thing I know, he’s strung up and wearing boots so I can’t ogle those feet. He twists and turns. Johnny Bondi the supposed “master” watches and smacks him occasionally with a paddle that never so much as turns Richie’s butt pink. It’s sort of the fake S & M version of a comedian’s slapstick. Johnny is very small for a master. He’s about as threatening as a toy poodle. But I suppose when one is bound, it doesn’t take much to govern them. For 75 minutes the same things go on and on, except when Richie is forced to suck Johnny’s dick for about 58 seconds and Johnny jacks Richie off. 75 minutes of tedium. If I had Richie bound in my basement, I’d think of a lot more things to do with him.

It’s truly odd that in all the years that this studio has been making films and the great number of them they have cranked out, they don’t get any better. Nobody there seems to have learned anything about filmmaking. I guess they just don’t care.