Imperial's Rating:

Let's begin with our good friends at Private. Their "Private Film #20 and #21, "The Tower" (two parts, with a third allegedly in production) are their most recent efforts to show us a good time. As usual they try hard; they pump money in the production, don't give a flying fuck about securing the "Non-Violent" label on the box, and cater well to their fan base by keeping up to their proven raunchy formula. So, what's the verdict?

Well, this time there's good news and bad news. The good news: the videos succeed in being fun, the plot is quite tittilating at parts and the action is, as expected, incredibly raunchy, brilliantly shot and EXTREMELY long (each video lasts almost 2 hours). This, however, we've come to expect >from Private. The bad news is quite disconcerting and unfortunately spoil the enjoyment of the flick.

Ron very appropriately subtitled the film as "Jim South invades Europe", and it's true. When the credits started rolling in the end, I made two wagers: that the main star, Aliza, is Russian in origin, and that Mr. South had at least some responsibility for the disgraceful parade of bleach, Silly Cones and, most disgustingly, tatoos my eyes had just witnessed. Sure enough, the "Casting" credit confirmed how infallible I am :-). After the usual bottomless source of Hungarian talent, the local wealth of French girls, and the recently very pronounced British participation had been credited, the credits I had expected fell into place: Moscow bureau for Ms. Aliza and LA bureau (World Modelling Agency) for the rest of the petrochemical products.

But let's take things from the beginning. "The Tower" is an unashamed ripoff of the mainstream turkey "Sliver". The funny thing is that when I saw that terrible film last year I immediately thought: "Sharon Stone isn't in the buff long enough -what a ripoff" :-) and "Gee, as bad as this works for mainstream, it should make one hell of a porn movie". And indeed our pals at Private didn't prove me wrong. The plot works: Ms Aliza rents a flat in a tower where several mysterious murders have happend in the past (all on screen); she looks exactly the sort of dumb, confused person the part calls for, and is quite convincing as being liberated to the point of sluttiness at the same time. Of course this is a porno: "Hi, let's fuck" premises abound. When Aliza goes to check the flat before she moves in, it is very natural she'll fuck the real estate agent. Later on, when two policemen come inquiring about the recent rapes and murders, the -female- tenants are most anxious to cooperate with authorites putting -literally- their collective asses on the line. Aliza cannot of course lag far behind, and in Part 2 she engages in a 3some with a male and female cop (an absolutely SUPERB scene -who's the lady who plays the female cop BTW?).

All the while, the unidentified -as yet- rapist/serial killer goes about his evil ways. Amazingly enough the US version has left all the non consentual stuff uncut, including all the knife threats, forceful sodomization and eventual killing (only the first murder is shown on screen, the rest are off stage). What is most disturbing is that all this is presented in quite a light, almost fluffy, manner that pisses me off more than the NC aspect.

That said, from a sexual point of view these NC scenes are excellent, particularly the one in Part 1 that includes some of the best anal sequences I have recently seen (the girl is natural, thank God). My verdict for this particular aspect of the film is that I personally don't feel much titillation by such premises, but I understand that many do and still remain entirely harmless to society. These are, we must not forget, "adult" movies, i.e. they are addressed to supposedly mature individuals. If a viewer actually goes out and commits similar crimes because of what Ms. MacKinnon claims to be the influence of the video, then he is immature and does not deserve the appellation "adult" any more. Such a sick person would IMHO commit the crime regardless of the stimulus. It's the lack of reason and mental balance that "made him do it", not the flick.

Personally however, NC scenes don't do much for me. The voyeur aspect of the film however is IMHO quite delightful. This is a parallel plot; as in the mainstream, our heroine becomes involved with the owner of the building who has installed a high tech surveillance system in each appartment to get his thrills. This is a first rate fantasy prescription, at least for myself. The action spied upon is also quite good, particularly the opening scene where a father, concerned about his daughter's morals, takes it upon himself to teach her a lesson. Very conveniently this includes screwing her and another lady (her friend? mother? father's girlfriend? my French is unfortunately quite rusty) generally in the ass.

The Imperial Verdict: both films are solid rentals but will no doubt leave you with mixed emotions like myself. The sex is invariably scorching, there is one outdoor (rooftop) scene and the girls are generally very attractive. But the plastic-and-tatoo plague will ruin your peace; the FF key inevitably comes to the rescue and, when this happens, a film cannot go beyond a 3.00 rating. Why the need for Mr. South's mannequins I ask? I would be extremely surprised if the tough European crowd does not resent this sudden invasion of Americana in the porn they are so deservedly proud of. If I judge from the mood in alt.tv.satellite.europe, where American movies are invariably derided (including, amazingly enough, the Golden Age as well) Private is going to feel a lot of heat, very soon.

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Posted By Imperial, www.excaliburfilms.com | 10/5/06 1:58 PM

I like movies' Rating:

Starring: Coralie, Moni Kat, Monica, Liza Harper to name a few.

Top notch, always the best from private in terms of quality filming. On of the few companies that use lighting and decent sets.

Very erotic, sexy. Women in lingerie this is a private classic best than all the newer stuff. The old private film series I still think are the best they ever did.

The sex is great, the women are awesome, every scene and I mean every scene is a scorcher. Twelve hot scenes but read the next part first. . .

THIS IS IMPORTANT for fans of the TOWER series. On DVD you don't actually get the whole two films, I was horribly disappointed to find that cut off a few scene from the tower 2, which had an awesome threesome scene at the end with two cuties and a guy with a massive cock. It was one of my favorites, both these hotties get into it. IT'S NOT THERE. And the tower 3 is missing the start scene with the hot asian girl. There could be other missing I can't remember I saw it on tape ages ago but I noticed and was very pissed off. I don't know whey they did, maybe they couldn't fit it all on one dvd, but the fact remains, the tower 2 is a classic and you want the whole film and I regret to say that you might have to buy it on video instead of DVD. Same goes for the Tower

And on top of this there is no notes on the DVD to say that it's missing, they claim that to have both films. It's false advertising as far as I'm concerned. Here's the funny part, the scene that has one of the girl missing has a picture of her on the back with cum all over her face! It's like they screw you and then rub it in your face. Either that or maybe I got the reject DVD out of the bunch, I don't think so.

I would give it ten out of ten, but I'll have to settle for eight on the account of the cut out scenes.

Posted By I like movies, www.excaliburfilms.com | 10/12/06 1:58 PM

Ronin's Rating:

Starring: Aliza, Monica, Nathalie, Anais, Bernadette, Monon, Rachel, Monikat

The film is well-shot and well-produced.

This is a disappointing effort from Private. There are too few sex scenes draped over a pretty threadbare plot, and none of the sex is up to Private's usual standards

Well you can never fault the girls in a Pierre Woodman production, can you?

I don't mind one scene where you have two or three girls to one guy, but when every scene in the film is like that, you start to miss the kind of really messy denouement that two or three guys can deliver onto one frantic little face.

This is a six for me I'm afraid.

Posted By Ronin, www.excaliburfilms.com | 10/12/06 1:58 PM