Maui Heat

This is skin flick set in a tropical landscape that is the backdrop for a troubled photo shoot. When not taking pictures of beautiful women Michael Andercon has sex with beautiful women. This is for some reason a problem. Doug Jeffery is his evil nemisis for some reason; maybe because he too has sex with beautiful women. This is a "7" because it has Kira Reed, Kim Yates, and Kim Dawson; all soft-core allstars. The sex scenes are good, but not great which means that it still is worth a rental fee.

This film is yet another one of Playboy's excuses to show naked women in an R-rated movie. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but honestly: why even bother with a plot? For this film, it involves a couple of models who travel to Maui in order to pose for a swimsuit magazine. The movie is peppered with small and insignificant character conflicts, naturey scenes, and unusually soft lighting which all attempt to mask it as a work of art rather than what it really is-- masturbation material. However, I found that all of the actors in the film were very good, if not excellent, and perhaps the pseudo-plots were to showcase their talents. All in all, this is just another Cinemax softporn. Nothing to run out and buy. In fact, I'm curious as to why they ever released this on DVD.

This Playboy production features plenty of flesh, a hackneyed story, and a lot of wasted talent. Dawson and Jeffery are, as usual, first-rate, and Andercon, Rowe, and Yates do their jobs well enough. But sloppy production and a script-by-committee make for a frustrating viewing experience. (Have you ever seen a character--the STAR, no less!--whose hair style changes from shot to shot within the same scene???)