MILF Mayhem

If you dig the work of Ken Docherty, aka Kendo the British fetish director, then you'll love "MILF Mayhem", a meaningless title applied by daring! Media to one of his most pretentious releases.

Employing some top Brit talent headed by Rebecca More (her name sloppily misspelled as Moore), he daringly takes his "splintered" editing style to a new extreme, since dropped in his recent features. The five abstract sex scenes have been arbitrarily (and in complicated fashion) intercut and jumbled together, almost in the manner of those experimental "cut up techniques" of Beat writer William S. Burroughs. If this sounds avant garde or innovative, in practice here Kendo's work is merely irritating.

That's because he's not merely satisfied with randomly rearranging footage to suit his whim but shamelessly keeps repeating shots over and over. That recalls in any porn devotee the old practice of looping and stretching existing footage to sort of approximate feature-length running times, padding that was a frequent annoyance both in the theatrical era of porn ('70s) and the early VHS period.

Result is painfully out of step with modern tastes, where lengthy, uninterrupted sex scenes/vignettes are all the vogue for an immediate gratification/short attention span public. The intellectual process of trying to sort out the innumerable jump cuts/dissolves and juxtapositions Kendo uses in "MILF Mayhem" can produce mental mayhem on the order of a migraine, but hardly is arousing in any sense.