Perdiendo el Control

Losing Control is about a romance writer who's losing her stuff and who gets it back when she enters an affair with a mysterious man whom she oly knows as "Jack." Jack tells her to go places, she goes there, they have sex. That's about as kinky as it gets in a film that's basically about a maledom/femsub relationship. No submissiveness on Kira's part, other than going to the rendezvous, and no dominance on the guy's part, other than telling her where to rendezvous and smirking a lot when they talk.

Because it did not have the honesty or the understanding or whatever to tell a maledom/femsub romance story, which even ROMANCE writers are quite capable of doing, the film fails even as explotation. What's more, the sex scenes are very skimpy for a Skinamax erotic thriller. In fact, there's a scene toward the end in which Kira hunkers down on her man, still clothed, and then the next thing you see is her leaving the premises. I think the people who suspect censorship may have something here. The film I saw on U.S. cable ran 1 hr and 25 minutes from the start of the opening credits to the last of the end credits, which would make a version that includes longer scenes unusually long for a Skinamax flick. If anyone out there has seen a longer version, well, that would be revealing.

The movie is beautifully photographed. Kira Reed, Anneliza Scott and Doug Jeffery do a far better job with the lines than the script deserves, and yet it's a total nothingburger. Worst of all, a waste of Kira Reed.