#27 - Ground Zero L.A. (1991) / #28 - Radioactive (1991)
Ah, when porn stars try to act. And I'm not talking about Sasha Grey or the legendary Ron Jeremy. Back in the early 90s, Buck Adams decided he wanted to make a porn action movie (yes, they do happen, but not very often since, oh, the late 70's.) So he unleashed this piece of cinematic trash on the world in two versions, hard and soft.
Jerry Butler plays a squirrelly terrorist who's stolen some plutonium, and is holding Los Angeles ransom for a billion dollars. Adams and Steve Austin play a pair of vaguely sleazy cops who seem more interesting in bedding sluts than hunting down the guys they're supposed to be stopping. And there are a bunch of generic female characters who seem to be chiefly there to be bedded.
This was made during a period where Adams was hopped up on a ton of coke and thinking that he was some kind of porno auteur. Whatever auteurist pretensions Adams may have had, Ground Zero L.A. falls about as short as you'd expect a movie made by a porn actor to. The attempts to build plot and suspense are undermined by the fact that most of the people in this movie can't act, and the fact that this was supposed to be a movie first and porn second is undermined by the fact that the softcore sex scenes run at about the same length as the hardcore, so aside from the standard insertion/bumping and finishes, you might as well be watching the porn movie. Overall, both are pretty godawful, but at least if you watch Radioactive, you'll actually be getting the porn. There have been decent movies that were simultaneously porn and actual movie. This is not one of them.
Jerry Butler plays a squirrelly terrorist who's stolen some plutonium, and is holding Los Angeles ransom for a billion dollars. Adams and Steve Austin play a pair of vaguely sleazy cops who seem more interesting in bedding sluts than hunting down the guys they're supposed to be stopping. And there are a bunch of generic female characters who seem to be chiefly there to be bedded.
This was made during a period where Adams was hopped up on a ton of coke and thinking that he was some kind of porno auteur. Whatever auteurist pretensions Adams may have had, Ground Zero L.A. falls about as short as you'd expect a movie made by a porn actor to. The attempts to build plot and suspense are undermined by the fact that most of the people in this movie can't act, and the fact that this was supposed to be a movie first and porn second is undermined by the fact that the softcore sex scenes run at about the same length as the hardcore, so aside from the standard insertion/bumping and finishes, you might as well be watching the porn movie. Overall, both are pretty godawful, but at least if you watch Radioactive, you'll actually be getting the porn. There have been decent movies that were simultaneously porn and actual movie. This is not one of them.