Apocalypse X

Jakodema reemphasizes his status as one of Digital Playground's worst directors with this ambitious (only for a porn movie) attempt to marry XXX sex vignettes with the thrills of a Mad Max action film. At times it almost works, but Jakodema manages to ruin everything.

For starters, Stevie Shae is seriously miscast in a dominant lead role as The Ghost, a vengeful woman roving around in her souped-up Ford Mustang in a post-Apoclaypse landscape attributed to terrorists setting off dirty bombs in urban centers.

She does team up with a couple of unlikely comrades, petite Vanessa Rodriguez who's escaped from the marauding biker-gang styled Reapers and a stupid allusion to Mad Max in the form of Richie Calhoun wearing goggles and boasting a variable Aussie accent as something of an indie black marketeer.

The seven sex scenes in this 3-hour opus are acceptable but Jakodema fumbles the action footage and what passes for a story line. The Reapers are led by Derrick Pierce, with the familiar couple of Mick Blue and Anikka Albrite making a greater impact than he as his scouts. Steven St. Croix gives one of his worst acting performances, walking through dully his role as the Lord of New Babylon, a makeshift outpost in the post-collapse world, and is fortunately upstaged by busty French star Eva Karera, the best thing in the picture as New Babylon's sexy (anal that is) Queen.

Ending is terrible and contradictory, as we have solo vigilante Shae back on the open road in her Mustang voicing over a set-up for a possible sequel, even though the movie has built up to her being a prisoner and future slave for St. Croix. Either a case of crucial "scene deleted" or the usual porn who cares? approach to narrative.