Quite literally, sparks fly from the first frame of Pacific Sun's latest Eastern European import, Jackhammered, for this production is set in a metalworks factory, where the hunky laborers fulfill just about every blue-collar fantasy imaginable. In or out of their overalls and coveralls, these 16 performers are perfectly cast - they look right at home in this workplace, and nearly all of them seem enthusiastic and comfortable whenever their breaks turn to sexplay. And that's most of the time.
Pacific Sun's Jackhammered (not to be confused with Jet Set Productions' release of Jackhammer) is comprised of five scenes, four of which are threeways, and the other one (a duet) is played out contrapuntally against one of the trios. After a brief tour of the plant in which the various workmen are introduced, the film gets down to business. A brief situational setup is played out for each sex scene, and the rest of the running time is devoted to wall-to-wall action. Unfortunately, most of the set-ups are disappointingly similar.
In each instance, two or more workers berate and attack a third who is accused of being a slacker or goof-off. Invariably, this third man ends up being bottom boy to the others - he does most of the sucking and gets all of the fucking. Nearly everyone else remains, to one degree or another, trade. The faces are handsome, the bodies are awesome, the cocks remain hard, and the action is energetic, but the similarity of the setups and sameness of the sexual choreography in each scene make for no surprises and little variety. No matter how good the sexual action is - and most of it is quite good - by the time the last scene rolls around, the viewer cannot help but yawn a bit and say to himself, "Yeah, but haven't I seen it all before?"
Director Csaba Borbely certainly manages to generate heat among his performers, and in the first scene, he is aided and abetted by the three least-tradey performers in the film, Joe Calderon and Fred Goldsmith (both popular performers from the Falcon International line) and a sizzling bottom pig, new to us, named Mick Houston. When Huston talks back to them, his fellow workers turn off the machine and punish him - guess how? - even though they seem far more interested in each other than in him. All three suck dick as if they really want to, and the nonstop kissing throughout (especially from Goldsmith) adds considerable heat to the proceedings. The anal action (first, standing doggie and then a lap fuck) is equally torrid, and Huston takes both the others with considerable enthusiasm and a surfeit of moaning and groaning.
In the second sequence, the foreman (Peter Kristia, another Falcon alum) faces off with a smart-ass subordinate, the crewcut Ben Mason, and urges his fellow workmen (the goateed Charles Cromenberg, the glossily handsome Benn Davis and the round-faced Mickey Danson) to join in. Mason gets quite a workout from Kristia, Davis and Cromenberg, and his jaws must have been exhausted from the repeated bouts of face-fucking. (Danson is content to watch the proceedings and do nothing more than jack off.) Both the oral and anal action is athletic and powerful but completely by the numbers. No one touches anyone else except Mason, and there is no emotional interaction whatsoever, which makes the results seem far more robotic than they actually are. The positioning - especially the standing doggie and lap fucks - are virtually the same as in the first scene, and as each of the tops reaches climax, he leaves. Mason is a great receptacle, and all of the others use him with considerable spirit, but moaning and pounding are not necessarily passion, and the scene, for all its surface fireworks, is strangely pro forma.
Fortunately, during the lengthy sequence, another pair of workers - salt-and-pepper-haired Tom Dacascos and the spitfire find of the film, Roberto Giorgio - watch the proceedings, and although they claim to be appalled by such goings-on, they are soon at each other. Giorgio has one of the most perfect bodies to be seen in adult films and an unbridled enthusiasm to match. Here he services and then bottoms for the older man, who you can almost see counting the seconds until he gets his paycheck. Strangely enough, it doesn't matter - for one can hardly take one's eyes off the noisy, expressive, libidinously extravagant Giorgio.
In the following vignette, brunet Robert Clavier doesn't like the way dirty blond Donald Jarrott is doing his job, but that doesn't stop him from coming on to him. Moments later, Lorice Jackman notices what's going on, turns off his machine and joins them. Jarrott is an extremely handsome, butch hunk of flesh in the Ken Ryker-Matt Majors-Matthew Rush mold, and he is worked over by both the others. The scene percolates nicely, and were it in first position, it would knock your socks off. This is, however, the third time we've seen the two-on-one sucking followed by the one-on-two sucking followed by the standing doggie fuck followed by the lap fuck, and the excitement is severely undercut by the familiar tableaux.
In the final scene, almost as if everyone were running out of creative and sexual steam, darkly handsome Korath Ferang simply turns off his machine and turns on to his fellow worker, dirty blond Renato Bellagio. Things proceed as before until Giorgio returns to watch and soon join in. But before he does, he just stands there watching and working his heaven-stretched erection - and that is a sight to behold. When he joins them, things perk up considerably, although the choreography remains much the same. Here he tops Ferang, revealing his versatility and thus enhancing his already overwhelming screen presence. He almost but not quite saves the scene from death by déjà vu.
Jackhammer has much going for it - an enticing cast, intimate videography, potent sexplay and a striking location, but its sexual imagination is sadly circumscribed. Director Borbely has obviously found the positions and camera angles that work for him, and they are executed very well, but it's time he expanded his repertoire.
- Jerry Douglas
Hungarian porn stars really love their costumes. Not content with their usual fare of police and fire episodes, director Csaba Borbély finds a different motif and set of costumes for them: metal workers. The factory bit is fun, and the overalls, with no other discernible clothing underneath, is a treat as well. I can't think of one bad word, not even a mild one, to say about the 15 guys in this video. All are perfectly formed physically, with not an ounce of body fat to be found. When this much smooth lovely beefcake comes your way, you can't rightly complain anyhow.
There are four long scenes in this story. All take place in this metal factory where the guys actually seem to know what they are doing when it comes to the machinery, looking like gym bunnies that found another way to work out their muscles, and make money doing it! The first scene is a three-way with tight thin Mick Huston, perhaps the most handsome guy around here, tall butch Joe Calderon and smooth unbelievably gorgeous Fred Goldsmith. For the first part of the scene, Mick and Fred share Joe’s meaty cock. They share nicely and each does fine individual work, while Joe clearly deserves to be worshipped. When Joe gets on his knees to repay the kindness to both of them, you see just how big he is. Each of his arms is as big as a thigh on each of his little buddies. Joe is fine giving head, using more hand than anything else. After a suggestive can of oil is filmed, we find Mick bouncing gleefully on Joe's dick, his own hard cock flopping proudly in the air to neutralize the pain that seems to be registering on his face. After Mick is considerably opened up by this position, Fred takes over the fucking in doggy-style position. Mick continues to blow Joe and then all three blasts nice loads.
Foreman Peter gathers his crew around new guy Ben Mason to teach him the lessons of the factory. Ben is wise to their trick and smiles as they saunter over. First, Peter strips down in front of him and offers his cock. Peter has thankfully retained some of his yummy hair and his floppy head hair and handsome face make him always the star of any video he's in. After Ben chews as far down on this dick as he can, he is offered those of Benn Davis, a tall big-toothed fellow and then Charles Cromenberg, the man in this video who looks most different from the others just by virtue of his sinister beard (a dead-ringer for former Playgirl Man of the Year Scott Layne). All three have matching huge cocks and if those aren't enough for you, stuffed in happy large-tongued Ben's tireless mouth, there is beefy Mickey Danson stroking his even bigger one next to the action. Unfortunately, Mickey cums too early and is released from the scene. But, that leaves three very horny tops for Ben to deal with. He takes them all in good time. Peter, the king of the scene, fucks first while Ben continues to blow the other two. Peter is superb and very smoothly makes his whole penis fit into Ben's hairy ass. Charles then takes over, adopting a grinding motion that he used when being sucked which has a better outlet here. Benn is the final fucker of the trio and as he pounds powerfully, Peter cums a gigantic load and leaves the scene.
However, though this quintet has lost two of its members, it gains two more in an odd way. Roberto Giorgio, a seething brooding guy, and Tom Dacascos, a stunning graying older guy with a magnificently solid body and a lot of hair on it, arrive and are dismayed by what they see. What they watch is Ben fucked again and again by Charles and Benn in riding position, much better for this bottom, Tom and Roberto get horny and vent this pent-up sexual rage on each other. Tom is stripped and pleased by Roberto. Roberto, as easy to look at as cut glass, works slowly down Tom's chest and then to his manly dick with tons of head motion and even more passionate interest. As the trio in the next room continues their fucking and sucking, Roberto ever-so-briefly eats a tad of Tom's ass and then gets fucked by the senior member of the scene. Tom has something of a problem fucking Roberto, mainly because it's a difficult sideways position, but also because Roberto doesn't seem open to Tom's thrusting jabs. However, Roberto lights up in interest and talent when he gets to mount Tom and take over the scene. He has a truly grand time, fully erect mind you, and his muscular ass looks so great in the long shots. Ben has a dream of a shot at the end of all this, followed by the film's best from Benn, and notably followed by fine ones from Charles and Roberto. It was a clever way to shoot and mix two scenes, having them watch each other.
Some truly awful translations tell us that two other guys are arguing over the quality of their work. They are Rob Clavier, an almost Latino sexbomb who looks very young with his first signs of facial hair, and Donald Jarrott, a wide-nosed brown-haired guy with big eyes. Rob teasingly slips the overalls off Donald slowly and sensually and once they start kissing, Lorice Jackman, a glamorous young frat type, joins them. He and Donald kiss with total abandon, with Rob leading down Donald's body, but its Donald on his knees first. He is soon joined by Lorice to digest Rob's huge balls and moderate dick. The sharing looks exactly like the first scene, with the addition of more ballplay. Lorice gives this movie's only real rim, and it's a wonder. Donald is so inspired by it that he does better work sucking alone on Rob. Lorice, having wetted Donald so spectacularly, is rewarded by getting to fuck the same ass. He's a fan of the full in-and-out, which is a change from most of the other fucks here, so it's fun to watch. Donald predictably sits on Rob's dick next (seemingly this director's favorite position) as Lorice plays around Donald with his mouth. There isn't much excitement in this position, and it's left to non-participating Lorice to provide the scene's real spark at this point. He has a glittering shot all over Donald's chest and the other two have good loads of their own.
Korath Ferang and Renato Bellagio works side-by-side and need no dialogue to start their scene. Tall dark Korath is a nice foil to hairy lighter Renato, almost as Italian looking as his name. They feel and grab and lick and kiss until Renato is stripped to reveal a two-toned dick and blissfully clipped chest hair. Korath's blowjob is actually a deep-throat at times, the first time we've been treated to that. While this is going on, Roberto returns to this action, looking even dreamier and more buff than he did previously. He and Renato kiss as Korath alternates on their similar cocks. Roberto and Renato then attend to Korath alternately, his copious fat cock the underutilized prize of the scene. Roberto takes Renato's sucking as an opportunity to lick and stick a finger in the sucker's ass, but it's actually Korath who ends up playing bottom, first for Roberto as Renato continues to blow him from deep underneath the anal action. There's a fine moment of unintentional comedy at the end when Roberto grabs onto Renato's shoulder to spray on him, but Renato adopts a pissed look and moves out of the way.
The main issue with this movie is its air of predictability. The three-ways are almost identical, and that would be okay if each scene weren't so long. There are no real simple one-on-one scenes here, which gives the video its feel of a factory gone nuts. The guys are all hot, not a loser in the bunch, and their talents are used fully, even though some of them tire by the end of some scenes.
DVD features: Dolby sound; easy-to-use chapter selection; a photo gallery; trailers for other Pacific Sun productions; and no regional coding (playable worldwide).
A VHS + DVD Review by Brent Blue