Ryker's Revenge is a mega homecoming in a couple ways. First, Ken Ryker comes out of retirement with a performance that sizzles, and second, director Jim Steel emerges from a long drought of low budget projects to create one of the hottest videos of the year. What a difference a budget makes. Steel keeps the plot simple but effective. The acting by Ryker and Hart is topnotch. The sex is as good as it gets, expertly lensed on tape, with great in-your-face action. Let's get going!
Ryker has been out of videos for a while. As always, rumors fly as to why he left, but it's sleazy Christopher Dixon (Jack Francis) who has really been on Ryker's ass so to speak. Joey Hart wants to get to the bottom of it all, but first he has to convince his editor (Dak) that there is a true story to be found. Ryker will deal with his inner demons while Hart searches for truth. The sex that takes place in between ties everything together nicely.
Ryker is in the shower when his boyfriend, Steve Harper, reads Dixon's latest tale that Ryker was abducted by aliens. After a brief discussion, they begin a very hot session of sex. Harper starts by inhaling Ryker's larger than life dick. He sucks long and hard as we get a great view of Ryker's hairy chest and well-muscled body. Ryker doesn't just sit back to enjoy but gets a taste of Harper's juicy meat, eventually moving on to get his tongue deep in Harper's hole. Harper soon gets a deep pounding from Ryker's fully hard cock in a multi-positioned fuck. Harper's pleasurable look clearly shows his enjoyment. Soon Harper's chest is coated in white goo to end a delicious coupling. The chemistry of these two really connects. This is perhaps the hottest sex scene in the video.
Next, Hart drops in on Logan Reed to get the real scoop on Ryker. After several questions, one thing leads to another, and soon these two are hot and heavy as they create their own scene. Ah to be a reporter. After a refreshing dip in the pool, they heat up the patio with a sex romp that rocks. They trade blows before a flip-flop fuck. They are sensual yet animalistic as they partake in each other's wares. Milked balls close another scene that blazes.
Hart moves on to track down a lead he got from Reed. As he questions talent agent Ricky Starr, ever-cute Dean O'Connor is about to use the proverbial casting couch to further his career aspirations. Hart leaves so they can get busy using their mouths. Starr assures him he has the looks, but can he perform? Yes, indeed he can, as he effortlessly takes care of Starr's thick tool. Starr returns the favor before he gets a taste of O'Connor's puckered hole. Soon Starr lies back while the pupster fingers his rosebud open in preparation of its impending penetration. He shoves his hard dick up Starr's quivering ass for a long ride. It's so erotic to see this butch guy get nailed by the slender boy. Camera shots capture all the juicy details of this exquisite pairing. O'Connor busts a thick load on Starr as he shoots a gallon himself. I think he passed.
Our intrepid reporter continues his search for Ryker info at a local gym, where he meets him in the flesh. Well we've hit pay dirt, as every gorgeous porn star is sweatin' it out at this gym. Ryker takes a liking to Hart, and they go for a coffee break.
Meanwhile, in the shower, Chad Donovan, Tony Donovan, Zachary Scott and Brett Ford get busy taking care of four raging stiffies. Chad showcases his incredible deep throat abilities, soon to be followed by the rest. This is one shower full of super-sized cock. At one point, Chad is munching on two big poles at once. They all stay decently swelled throughout, including Donovan who turns in his hardest performance yet. But it's lucky Ford who gets a veritable shower of white juice all over his face. This is one of the best suck scenes ever captured on tape.
Back at the coffee shop, they talk about why he left the industry and then what his favorite sexual memory is. Fade to Ryker as he gets his golden rod serviced by the Odyssey Twins, Gabriel and Oscar. Their butts are next as they take everything Ryker has masterfully. I found this to be the weakest scene of the video but still worth watching. I would really like to see the twins interact with each other more. Wouldn't we all really like to know the real story of these two hunks?
The final scene is to be expected, as the pursued is conquered by his pursuer. Well, maybe it's the other way around, as Hart uses all his bottoming capabilities to handle Ryker's sizable schlong. A whiff of leather is in the air as a leather-clad Ryker uses every orifice Hart has to relieve his needs in a forbidding dungeon. Hart looks especially enticing as he delivers his ass in a sling. Few master/slave scenes have been better than this one. It's amazing to see the size of Ryker's meat as it flops all over Hart's face. Steel knows how to capture a money shot, as we see every drop of man fluid rocketing through the air.
Ryker's ultimate revenge is that he gives intrepid reporter Hart his exclusive comeback interview over the scumbag gossip maven Christopher Dixon. The icing on the cake was Hart's lucky lips, both fore and aft, around Ryker's thick dick.
Jim Steel has done it. He's a director with a track record of solid videos in his early years at Vivid video, with such titles as Heat, Turn it Up, Rings, Ivy League and A Wanted Man, among others. It's great to see him back in form. I hope he'll have a long relationship with the good folks at Odyssey. And Ryker makes a return that outshines all his past videos. I never thought he was all that hot, but he has matured for the better. Ryker is more confident in himself, and it shows. His willingness to break out of trade status makes him really hot.
Hart also gave a credible performance, delivering lines with ease. He is turning out to be one of the best performers around. Harper also turns in a great performance as he handles everything Ryker threw at and shoved inside him. O'Connor is a young pup who craves dick and knows how to use it. He turns in an even better performance than in Something very Big. He's also more confident in his performance. Francis continues to deliver good non-sexual performances - let's hope he continues to keep his clothes on! Overall, an outstanding video worth an addition to your collection.
Adam Morris
This multiaward-winning video becomes a classic in this new, smoothly packaged DVD format. It's like getting two videos in one: The original and a full-length documentary. The full story is available for view in high definition in its entirety, or the video clip chapters/scene selection will lead you to the kind of sex you want to see for instant gratification. The lively and animated menu will lead you to the "extras" section, with the director's "commentary" turning it into a full length documentary. Just turn it on and when you play the video, director Jim Steel will give you his lively, running reflections on the scene, the actors and other little inside tidbits of a video in the making. Steel not only was the director but the video's producer and writer.
Steel points out that the story almost wrote itself, as it was the tale of a superstar's retirement from videos at his peak and his popularity and his return to videos. Thus, the story of Ken Ryker's return to video that was "embellished" to become Ryker's Revenge. It worked and garnered numerous awards in 1998: From the GEVAs (Gay Erotic Video Awards), it took Best Packaging award and for Joey Hart the Best Supporting Actor award; from the Adult Video News' GayVNs it received the Best Group Sex Scene award for the shower scene with Zachery Scott, Brett Ford, Tony Donovan & Chad Donovan and the Best Overall Marketing Campaign award. Even co-star Joey Hart was given a Best Newcomer award Then the 1999 Men In Video Awards (Probies) named Ryker's Revenge the Most Romantic Video. Our own 1998 Grabbys gave the opening love scene between Ken Ryker and Steve Harper a Best Duo Sex Scene award, and a Best Screenplay award went to writer/director Jim Steel.
But above a great well-told story, great acting, topnotch camerawork and promotion campaigns (yes, there's the story of the West Hollywood billboard in the "extras"), the sex sizzles. As Steel says in his commentary, he feels there is a sex scene for almost eveyone's taste, from tender, intense lovemaking to a "twin" fantasy, a casting couch with a twist scene to the group "size queen" shower orgy, a pool-side romp and, finally, an intense daddy/boy leather scene, and all of them work. Slip this one in your DVD player and let it work for you.
- Big Daddy Ferguson