This Kendo video is a throwback to his early fetish productions, and not a good throwback at that. I prefer his early work, before he became full of himself and started experimenting with annoying, artsy editing techniques, but this straightforward presentation proves to be dull.
Unlike the high-energy, high-style work of Tanya Hyde, unquestioned leader in the field of fetish porn, Kendo and his various models (he never calls them actresses and never seems to ask them to act) are borrrrring in this short feature. Tanya is full of so many ideas and novel visuals that her 3 or 4-hour long extravaganzas are riveting, but I was bored out of my gourd long before Mr. K's 78 minutes of footage had elapsed.
An ugly dungeon set is the backdrop for girls doing things to other girls -things the BDSM fans have seen umpteen times before. K, who takes credit for lighting and camera-work, is fond of insertions, but someone needs to tell him that there is nothing intrinsically erotic about watching a finger, five fingers, a dildo or even some lengthy medical instrument entering a vagina or posterior. If that, and only that, is all it takes to entertain you, then you're pretty far gone.
Compared with his earlier top-shelf features for daring! Media, this one stars decidedly second rank Brit actresses: Daisy Rock, Harmony Hex and Lolly Badcock. They like to get down, get dirty, get wet, basically lose any residual inhibitions, but they are not the alluring beauties (think Michelle Thorne or Valery Summer) who can turn on a viewer without pulling out all the stops.
So we have gals in full fetish regalia spanking and treating each other as if auditioning for posting to Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq circa 2004. They talk dirty, make nasty faces (Lolly is an old hand at that), and spank/finger/dildo each other. A huge, over-sized dildo is brought into play to supposedly impress the viewer, the way Phil Prince did 30 years earlier in his outlaw NYC porn films. The rubber gas masks (seen a decade earlier in Kendo's "Masks" series) are back, just cryptic fetish elements.
Some segments are softer, with some breast worship and closer to the girly action fans of Lesbian Cinema are accustomed to. But what we have here is claustrophobic, poorly-shot, static porn -uninteresting and repetitive. And gutless too - whenever a naked or gloved hand gets too close to fisting, there is self- censorship, even though Kendo's many anonymous (on purpose) competitors routinely resort to fisticuffs to impress a jaded, niche audience.
