Coming late in the collaboration of director Nicholas Steele with the great artist Saint, "The Merger" is memorable for its very fine use of star Nikita Denise's oh so distinctive voice. Other pornographers chose to exploit her sexual talents on screen, but this Adam & Eve feature goes beyond that low-hanging fruit (pardon my ridiculous metaphor).
Randy Spears is the oh-so smug business magnate working on a merger, while also taking his extremely sexy wife Avy Scott for granted. Movie teases with a sexy shower scene involving the couple, which even after the opening credits results only in a blow job and no money shot, a dramatic ploy that would be unthinkable a couple of decades later in our current all-sex vignette era.
Story proper begins with a conference room meeting in which, after a brief presentation by his assistant Janine (Becca Bratt) Spears summarily denies a merger proposal by Steven St. Croix, even throwing him and his partner Lee Stone out.
The real merger action ensues with the arrival of Russan beauty Nikita Denise as Alexander Kalinsky (Alex for short), with her assistant big-dicked Steve Holmes in tow.
Spears is much taken with the exotic beauty, and is easy prey for her for the duration of the movie. Steele and his regular screenwriter/cameraman Philip O'toole keeps the pot boiling with other diversions, notably Holmes servicing the wonderful Brit import Ashley Long, plus a sex in the kitchen scene involving the ultra-beautiful lesbian team of Jana Cova and Cameron Cruise.
Movie ends on a cryptic but highly suggestive note, when we're treated, post-merger, to a strong threesome on a stairway involving previously seen but peripheral characters St. Croix, Stone and Becca. Hmm....
Production values including Saint's insinuating musical score are terrific, making me want to see all of the teams A & E productions from 2002, like "The Virgin Canvas", "The Taste of a Woman", "Sex Magician", "The Flesh Game" and "Whispering Hearts".
