Poker Ass

This Kendo straight-sex feature is from a transitional period in his career, dating back almost a decade.

It follows his gonzo and pure fetish video activities and marks the use of Continental European talent as he expanded his purview from Britain. More significantly it predates his stylistic experiments in "splintered" editing and other artsy affectations developed during his daring! Media heyday.

What we have here is five straightforward sex scenes, all set (repetitively) at a poker game. I recently watched a relatively new Kendo effort titled "Devious Wives" in which he returned to the no-frills approach, thankfully from my point of view.

So we have relatively unfamiliar femme talent (Cindy Dollar and Angel Dark as exceptions) humping British studs, mainly Stefan Hard who goes way back to the Bluebird days. Each vignette begins with a hand of poker, typically staged by Kendo in "who cares?" fashion because he doesn't care about narrative, drama or even the build-up of tension which I once thought (in them good old days) was an essential element of Adult Entertainment. Explicit sex, rather tediously presented, is this video's raison d'etre.

Use of direct sound for the moans and groans of lovemaking has some power, but overall this is unarousing. The cast merely walks through (and humps through) the pantomime and one infers that Kendo was as disinterested and bored on set as the viewer is likely to become watching it.