"Billion $ Girls", the first part of a lengthy porn saga of which only 2 parts are readily available, is quite disappointing simply because what might have been a successful project has been cut to ribbons. These European filmmakers, working in English to try and reach an international audience, have shot themselves in the foot by excising the connective tissue that might hold one's interest and simply assembling sex footage, just like millions of other generic 21st Century porn.
Given that the camera-work, including inventive use of wide angle lenses, is good, and the cast appealing, it's a shame. Inklings of a story line, with top-billed Aletta Ocean providing a few moments of pointless exposition, are abandoned and I was quite frustrated trying to piece together these characters and their relationships. Why round up talented performers, spend the time on costumes, makeup and styling to doll them up glamorously, and then present the footage so clumsily?
The answer dear friends, is not blowing in the wind but rather good old "cash it in". Both the best and the crummiest of recent porn shoots are at the point of editing mere XXX sausage to be packaged as sex filler, nothing more and nothing less. Respect for the audience, even a modicum of respect, is as dead as the dodo bird.
So we get four sex scenes revolving (apparently) around infidelity. A drunken character played by David Perry seemingly has a beautiful wife, dallies with a streetwalker and then heads to service his pretty mistress Aleska Diamond (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the unbilled streetwalker). Guest star Tarra White goes to Roberto Malone's office and services that old geezer of a porn veteran, while Nikky Thorne elects to hump a very unporn-like overweight young gent who I decided by the process of elimination was some local talent named Gabor Forjan (this opus evidently shot somewhere in Eastern Europe, like most Euro porn these days).
Mike Angelo has the thrill of humping Aletta in the claustrophobic confines of a bathroom, and gets no billing for his efforts. I recently suffered through two horrible features derived from "Outland", a phony shot in Spain "steampunk" Western (not), so I am likely to suffer through the second part of "Millionaire", as it stars Cathy Heaven among others, all duly listed in this Part One's end credits in typically misleading fashion.
Given that the camera-work, including inventive use of wide angle lenses, is good, and the cast appealing, it's a shame. Inklings of a story line, with top-billed Aletta Ocean providing a few moments of pointless exposition, are abandoned and I was quite frustrated trying to piece together these characters and their relationships. Why round up talented performers, spend the time on costumes, makeup and styling to doll them up glamorously, and then present the footage so clumsily?
The answer dear friends, is not blowing in the wind but rather good old "cash it in". Both the best and the crummiest of recent porn shoots are at the point of editing mere XXX sausage to be packaged as sex filler, nothing more and nothing less. Respect for the audience, even a modicum of respect, is as dead as the dodo bird.
So we get four sex scenes revolving (apparently) around infidelity. A drunken character played by David Perry seemingly has a beautiful wife, dallies with a streetwalker and then heads to service his pretty mistress Aleska Diamond (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the unbilled streetwalker). Guest star Tarra White goes to Roberto Malone's office and services that old geezer of a porn veteran, while Nikky Thorne elects to hump a very unporn-like overweight young gent who I decided by the process of elimination was some local talent named Gabor Forjan (this opus evidently shot somewhere in Eastern Europe, like most Euro porn these days).
Mike Angelo has the thrill of humping Aletta in the claustrophobic confines of a bathroom, and gets no billing for his efforts. I recently suffered through two horrible features derived from "Outland", a phony shot in Spain "steampunk" Western (not), so I am likely to suffer through the second part of "Millionaire", as it stars Cathy Heaven among others, all duly listed in this Part One's end credits in typically misleading fashion.