Girls with Guns 2 (2009)

Dick Bush is making a name for himself with large-scale porn assignments, especially for Digital Playground after contributing, uncredited, to many a shot-in-London Brazzers episode. His "Girls with Guns" series is only semi-professional in technique but serves as a template for his later career.

This followup takes the title seriously, as we have unrelated scenes of porn actresses, heavily armed and looking tough, shooting up guys and then humping the survivors. It's a fairly infantile exercise, almost on a level of the famous Don Glut amateur back-yard short sci-fi movies shot in the '50s, but entertaining on that level.

Instructive are the DVD's brief bonus segments, in which Bush shows us how to fashion and apply exploding blood squibs, those key action movie props dating back to Warner Bros.' influential '60s hits "Bonnie & Cyde" and "The Wild Bunch". All the crew members are pressed into service in the action scenes, dying a bloody death on cue.

Keisha Kane provides the interracial sex complement while Lolly Badcock and Michelle B. give a hint of star power to the low-budget production. It's difficult to recommend such a minor offering, but interestingly enough one of Bush's new large-scale movies, "London Knights", draws heavily on the techniques and motifs he developed here. So think of it as a workshop.