Ransom a review by Onan the Vulgarian Best of Phoenix Alternative Video Reviewer

	Cast: Austin Rogers, Steve Hunt, Jack Wright, Ian Lynch, Alex Lynch, Rogerio Mateo, Glenn Santoro, Kevin Cage, Julian Veneziano, Evan Rochelle, Tim Black, Randy Jones. Directed by Herve Bodilis.
	High Octane Productions. Wholesale inquiries, Pulse Distribution, 818-428-6606 or www.pulsedistribution.com. Internet and mail-order 877-HOCTANE or www.highoctane.org.

Ransom is another handsome production from High Octane in which the ravages of war are primarily sexual for the dozen soldiers who suck and fuck their way from here to orgasmic eternity.
    The sets and props are impressive, including an armored stretch limo, two military tanks in active pursuit of fleeing soldiers, and authentic uniforms and weapons. In the opening battlefield skirmish, Julian Veneziano is one of the fleeing soldiers who is caught and taken prisoner, handed over to guards Austin Rogers and Steve Hunt prior to questioning.
    With his hands tied and a hood over his head, Veneziano can only wonder what the sounds are that he hears in the room where he is being held. It's the sound of foreplay. Boredom and aquavit, which flows like semen in this military camp, have propelled the guards into a clinch. Motivated by burning curiosity, Julian loosens his bonds sufficiently to remove his hood and, liking what he sees, he works up a boner that he eventually wrests free of his camo fatigues.
    Hunt and Rogers show interest in Veneziano's interest, so it becomes a three-way, although Julian's hands remain tied together with a brilliant crimson cord throughout. The guards patrolling the outside of the building have no idea of what's going on inside, where after everyone sucks everyone else, furry Hunt gets his butt pounded by Veneziano and Rogers.
    While that's taking place, a Hummer stretch limo with an extravagantly appointed bar is carrying Glenn Santoro and a bodyguard, Rogerio Mateo, to the military compound. When Santoro's libido is sufficiently lubricated with cognac, he crawls over to Rogerio, sets the gun aside and helps himself to Rogerio's cock. This scene has possibly the best penetration sequence I've ever watched, and the rest of the scene is equally intense and dramatic, with Mateo crushing Santoro into the upholstery as he has his way with him, then Santoro taking over when they switch to a sit-fuck. Mateo resumes control again later, fucking Santoro in the scissors position to orgasms for both.
    The two are fully dressed and cool as cucumbers when the hummer arrives at its destination. The camp commander, Randy Jones, welcomes Santoro with a bear hug, but he doesn't hang around because he has ordered that two of the prisoners be brought to his private chambers. Jones waits, with a cigar in one hand and a hardon in the other, as Kevin Cage and Evan Rochelle are ushered in, and he orders them to suck each other while he masturbates and watches. Guarding the commander's room on the outside are Austin and Rogerio, who are hugely amused as they listen at the door.
    Jones gives his prisoners the signal to approach the bed, and after a three-way suck fest, Cage rims Jones, then he and Evan takes turns fucking him in several positions.
    Santoro, we subsequently learn, is a doctor and his job is to use the pharmaceutical means at his disposal to elicit information from Julian. But the chief result of the injection he gives Julian is a big hardon, so Santoro orders the guard, Tim Black, to suck it. Soon everyone is sucking everyone else without regard to political loyalties and Glenn is getting his hole fucked again, by Black.
    Back at the barracks, twins Alex and Ian Lynch are playing cards and drinking shots with handsome Jack Wright (Jack Laurel) after getting off duty. It's been a long day, so Ian decides to go to bed, and Jack soon does the same. Alex remains at the table, playing solitaire by flashlight and casting ogling glances at Jack, in the bunk to his left and his brother, in the bunk to his right.
    With the flashlight focused solely on Jack, Alex pulls out his cock and begins stroking. The light flickering on his face combined with Alex's groans wakes up Jack, who throws the covers off to show Alex his hardon, which Alex sucks. Jack reciprocates, and they make enough noise to wake Ian, who joins them. The twins take turns holding the flashlight and fucking Jack, quaffing more shots in the process. Wright, whom I once called the handsomest man in porn, is gloriously unwaxed and eager to make the pleasures and mysteries of his body available to his twin takers. Even the twins seem more relaxed here than they usually are, paying much more attention to their partner and less to the camera.
    Ransom has no dubbing and no subtitles, so if there's any meaning to the title, I missed it. But there's no missing the intense passions that blaze as the story unfolds. And I loved the epilogue, in which Commander Jones comes out to inspect the troops the following morning and marks his territory by pissing on it.
    The widescreen DVD has nearly an hour of backstage footage, cumshots, photo gallery.

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