Desejos Ardentes

1st watched 10/5/2001 - 1 out of 10(Dir-Mike Sedan): Boring, and sex-filled non-thriller about a man who publishes books and all the wicked ways that the women he is around try to influence him to bring them in on his supposed money. There are three women after him for various reasons and they get him in various ways but who really cares. Another loser in the erotic column for this one.

It's got to be said, straightaway, that this effort must rank alongside anything that's flagged up as being amongst the worst movies of all time. It is completely mind-numbing, and has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. Try as hard as you like, but it's virtually impossible to find any creditable attributes for this woeful movie. Acting, script, continuity, storyline and general production values are all poor in the extreme and, if you manage to struggle through the entire film, you'll merit a medal for endurance. If it was possible to score a zero, then this underwhelming experience would qualify unreservedly. It looks as though it was shot over a spare weekend when nobody had anything constructive to do with their time. The actors looked bored throughout, as the viewer certainly will be long before the end. Avoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The film revolves around a weird love square - if that's even such a thing? - between a publisher, his live-in girlfriend, the other person living in their house (a high school friend of the publisher's who is masquerading as being a lesbian but actually has feelings for him - and the publisher's ex-girlfriend, who is an erotic author, writing basically fictionalised reality on her relationship with the publisher. There are a lot of "almost" sex scenes in this film, but none that ever seem to follow through to a conclusion, so it isn't that much of a softcore movie (as it was marketed) and not much of a thriller, either. Problem is, you only find this out by watching. Pretty bland stuff, even when you consider the genre.