I'm gonna cut right to the chase.....Mia is about as hot as you can get. She certainly moved up my ladder of Cinemax honeys with her performance in this one.
I just finished watching this movie on Showtime, and I was amazed. The number of good looking women in this movie was outstanding. This was the first time I've seen Mia in a starring role, and she sure came through well. This is also the first time I've seen her with short hair...she looks a lot like Shauna O'Brien with that hairstyle.
The plot is cookie-cutter simple: Mia plays Nicole Williams, a bored and frustrated housewife with a husband who would rather she stay at home instead of doing anything for herself. While watching this movie, and seeing the way this guy's character acted, it made me want to bash this guy's head in with about 30 beer bottles.....ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?? Have you seen the woman you're married to? She's got a body out of this world, and she's practically begging for some attention....and this guy is barking out command after command. What a dummy.
Of course, this leads our shapely, very busty heroine to a modeling agency, where she has a nice talk with Claudia (Susan Featherly, an underrated actress if you ask me). Claudia reads Nicole like a book, pointing out her being a frustrated housewife married to her high school sweetheart. Nicole returns the favor, pointing out all the quirky characteristics of Claudia, including the fact that she'd jump at the chance to have an affair. Claudia, obviously PO'd about this, thinks that Nicole, if given the opportunity, would cheat in a heartbeat. Her business partner thinks otherwise. As if the writers ripped out the first third of "Cruel Intentions" and pasted it in the script, the partners make a bet on whether Nicole would cheat. Claudia, as the antagonist, has rigged the bet by throwing hot and horny models and photographers in Nicole's path. It seems like every photo shoot is one orgy after another, but that's not a bad thing....that's a good thing!
Of course, one thing leads to another, and many many sex scenes later, some shots ring out and a photographer is dead. Now it turns into a wild but predictable whodunit. This one is easy to figure out, but I'll won't tell you who killed the photographer.....if you watch this movie, the answer is about as obvious to spot as a 16 inch softball.
Griffin Drew makes an appearance in this one as the veteran model, teaching a few tricks to young and innocent Nicole, letting her inhibitions free! There's plenty of other hot women to look at, including Susan Featherly. I've seen her in many films, and she still gets overlooked.
Mia does a remarkable but somewhat non-believable job as Nicole, the shy, inhibited housewife with a deep-down desire to do be ambitious. When a woman looks as good as Mia does, it's hard to believe that she's "just a housewife." However, Mia still gives a great performance. Did I mention that Mia looked absolutely gorgeous in this movie? I mean, the woman looked AWESOME. It didn't matter what she did, or what she said....my eyes were glued to the screen the whole time.
"Sinful Temptations" falls into the trap most movies in this genre can't avoid.....relatively weak scripts. But, given the limits of the script, it was still a great movie. The plot is definitely recycled, so that limits the "Story" grade somewhat. Somebody get Mia some more starring roles......very soon!
Women (40%): A+ Sex (40%): A Story (20%): C Overall: A
