Seth Gamble's four-hour soap opera for Wicked Pictures has a very fine conclusion, maintaining interest (somehow) in the story of the backbiting clan that has Evan Stone as its patriarch. It was good enough to get my hopes up for a porno "Succession", but instead Seth's work is more like a "Dynasty" without Joan Collins.
The screenplay penned by Gamble is functional, lacking sharp or memorable dialog, but delivers plenty of subplots and plot twists to keep the pot merrily boiling. Evan's fortune and the money in his various off-springs' accounts has all been stolen, and now everyone is accusing each other of being the guilty thief.
Was it April Olsen, who's sleeping with her boss Damon Dice (he runs Stone's empire at present) and has access to computers and other corporate items that could facilitate the theft; or perhaps Lucky Fate, the young family member (think: "Succession"'s Keiran Culkin), a true ne'er-do-well. The viewer gets to figure things out before the characters do, but Gamble has some serious twists in store before a fine conclusion to the overall mystery.
Overall, I was quite pleased to receive an actual movie with story and developed character for a change, rather than porn's recent slide into all-sex territory, when even the traditional labels like Sweet Sinner and Adam & Eve have been reducing non-sex scenes to the bare minimum of running time -so anxious to get down to XXX. In each of eight segments running 4 hours long, Seth gives us a good six minutes of acting/story before doling out 20 to 25 minutes of sex -a winning formula.
Part 2 introduces three new main characters not shown before: Lexi Luna as the mother of the brood -very well acted by her as prime MILF; Tyler Cruise as her barely of age boy toy; and Vanessa Sky, introduced as a pole dancer near the end not identified (verbally) with a character name. There are also cameos, notably producer Axel Braun as an unsavory gangster and the familiar face of erstwhile director David Lord as his silent henchman.
