Sexo, Traições e Mistérios

Rating as a softcore film: A

The basic premise of this picture is lifted straight from the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston hit The Bodyguard: famous movie star Maxine Strickland (Tracy Ryan) is receiving threatening letters from an obsessed fan, so she hires conflicted tough guy Paul Logan to protect her. Most of the movie is set around her mansion, with the suspects including her butler and maid and her best friend Naomi Grant (Tera Patrick), who's secretly jealous of Maxine's success. No points for guessing the movie doesn't really care about the mystery.

Through and through, SOM is an excellent softcore production. The production values are passable, the lighting is excellent, the soundtrack is pleasing enough, and best of all, the women are breathtakingly gorgeous and the sex scenes are titillating. Taken for what it is, the movie succeeds on virtually all counts.

What's immediately eye-catching is the presence of two of the hottest women around, the blonde Tracy Ryan and half-Asian/half-American Tera Patrick. Tracy's best scenes are mostly near the end, when she has a lesbian encounter with Monique Parent (the least attractive woman in the movie, but not too distracting) and a passionate sex scene with Paul Logan. Tera's best scene is a threesome with the hot maid and the butler. Pity the redhead playing the maid is uncredited, she's incredibly hot, even looking as good as Tera and Tracy on several occasions.

The only thing that really disappoints is the lack of a lesbian scene between Tera and Tracy; here you have two of the hottest women and to simply neglect what could have been a coupling for the ages is completely flabbergasting. I'm not sure who to blame this omission on; even though I'm aware Tera Patrick usually doesn't do lesbian scenes, this is softcore and she did have that scene with redhead. So I guess this is the director's fault.

For anyone who actually cares about the plot, no one should have any trouble guessing who the culprit is. I'd say it's the character who serves no other purpose to the story, but then again, the only purpose any major character in this film serves is to bare their skin. Whatever the case, any single scene in the movie is far more satisfying than the whole of The Bodyguard.

In regard to other aspects of the plot, I'd say that any man who would cheat on Tracy Ryan clearly isn't thinking straight, but he's cheating on her with Tera Patrick! I can see why such a temptation would be too hard to resist. It's also easy to see Paul Logan succumbing to Tera's charms (or maybe it's just her looks) even when he has a thing for Tracy.

Seduction of Maxine is definitely one of the best softcore films in memory, ranking alongside other productions like Femalien, Fast Lane to Vegas, Alien Files, and Hidden Beauties. Now if only a movie could combine Tracy Ryan, Tera Patrick, Venesa Talor, Sasha Peralto, Sage Kirkpatrick, and Laurie Wallace, I'd be in softcore heaven.

Let's make this short and sweet. This flick had the cast, plot and potential to be great. It should have been a home run. What went wrong is simple. Most of the sex scenes were just shot poorly. If you have the talents of Tracy Ryan, Tera Patrick, and Monique Parent available for filming then you better be shooting the best camera angles to show off those talents. Tera had one saving scene. The scene that should have stole the movie - with Monique and Tracy in a lesbian frenzy - was so poorly shot that it was hard to tell they were making love. I gave this flick a 2.5 out of 5.

Although the story is far from innovative, and despite the plot is just excuse for showing sex, the script of this softcore thriller was at least able to open the alternatives to different feasible suspects. However, it is a B-film with horrible acting (indeed, famous porn star Tera Patrick has no less acting skills than the rest of the casting). The numerous softcore scenes have also a varied level of success in its quality, both as convincing or not and as mildly exciting or just tedious. The mystery end is quite bad and undeveloped too.

This is a very generic softcore porn movie, as expected. The story was very predictable, but the reason they made this movie was not to have a great storyline, obviously. I admire their attempt, at least. Tracy Ryan, the star of the movie, plays Maxine, some actress who is being stalked. As expected, she gets letters made from newspaper ad lettering saying such things as "You will soon die." The story is somewhat pathetically funny. Fortunately for the movie, Tracy Ryan stars, and she is very fine. However, this is a softcore porn movie, and Tracy barely had any scenes of her "specialty." Secondly, what's the point of watching this movie when she has much better, real movies out there? I recommend checking out some of Tracy's movies where she goes under the name of "Avalon." That's where you'll be getting the good stuff. I give The Seduction of Maxine a 4 out of 10.

Tracy, who goes under the name Tracy Voyek for this movie, leads a beautiful in this spin off of the Bodyguard. With a small budget and production value, the movie falls on the shoulders of Tracy. The story is weak like most soft-core movies that you find at 2 o'clock in the morning of cinemax and showtime. Still, the eye candy is there and Tracy continues to have a strong career as an actress in her genre. Some of the scenes lose its feel with lack of b-role and amateur editing, but the acting holds up as a number of naked women gives its audience what they want to see. Tracy Voyek ends the movie with a decent love scene with some emotion. You do get a decent amount of fake sex with no true grit, still, Tracy manages to dazzle her audience with moments of beauty and quality appeal.