Asa Goes to Hell

Wicked Pictures regularly showcases its contract stars, often with top directors like Brad Armstrong doing the honors. But this spotlight on Asa Akira was made by the ultimate hack Axel Braun (without doubt the most overrated porn director alive) and the results are miserable.

Title immediately brings to mind the greatest Adult Cinema marriage of storytelling and gonzo sex, Jim Powers' "Hannah Goes to Hell" starring Hannah Harper. But instead of storytelling Axel is lazily into All-Sex, prersenting Asa in five XXX scenes that are mechanical and boring.

Bookend footage has her wandering nude (but in high heels) down a wide alley, ending up entering four doors of different colors, each to provide her with a different sexual experience. Gimmick is stolen from the great ending of Damiano's "Devil in Miss Jones", where Georgina Spelvin is in Hell masturbating and unable to be satisfied, trapped there with the director (Gerard Damiano) as lost souls in eternity.

Axel is less artful (obviously), merely beginning with Asia masturbating, using the stiletto heel of her shoe as a dildo, as she watches an uncredited couple making love nearby, unable to get off. The first door is green (what a stupid homage!) and she gets to have lesbian sex with Aiden Ashley, while a guy (perhaps the Devil, but who cares?) sits masked nearby. It's a nothing scene, hinting at nothingness to come.

Remaining porn has her servicing three guys hiding inside black masochist fetish-gear with only their dicks visible, presumably Will Powers, Eric John and that over-the-hill former young porn star Dane Cross.

Eric John returns with his mighily erect cock the center of attention behind the next door, also mechanical sex including Asa's anal specialty. The fact that Braun & Wicked insist on condoms throughouts is compeletly counter-productive to the gonzo approach.

Finale has the only dialog here, a bit of pointless muttering by Moe Johnson before he and a silent Rob Piper have a routine IR threesome with Asa, in which the expected (and warranted in any gonzo exercise) d.p. never materializes. Pointless is the term I most often use in describing contemporary gonzo porn, but this one goes beyond that into mindless.