Catalina Video had great success with the first film in this series, which also happened to launch Brandon Lee's short-lived career. Lee has since left the business, for now anyway, but he does appear in this installment in a serviceable J/O. The star here is Tommy Lin, a moderately attractive stud with an alluring cock and a hard, muscled physique. He doesn't have Lee's sheer charisma, but Lin acquits himself well enough. Asian Persuasion 2, overall, is good, solid entertainment.
Lin and his b.f. Joey James are lounging around a palatial condo (only in porn, that's for damn sure) when James reads an ad in the local gay rag looking for Asian XXX models. (The "ad" was placed by Catalina, who have never been shy about product placement). Lin is amenable to answering the ad, so James picks up the camcorder and the two set to work. Joey James is an attractive redhead - something you don't see very often in porn. Will Clark and VidKid Timo are the only other redheads currently working; early in his career, Clark was actually passed over for work on a number of occasions due to the color of his hair. Thankfully, the Catalina crew had no compunctions about employing redheads, because James sucks cock with skill and enthusiasm. He and Lin appear to share some chemistry, and their sex is the best in the video.
Erik Tenaka, a skinny youngster with bleached blond hair and an alarmingly thick cock, shares a rather blah oral scene with skateboard punk Dan Cortez. Both have a youthful appeal, Cortez is particularly cute. But neither stays hard for very long, and Cortex apparently couldn't come, although he sure seems to enjoy sucking dick. Brandon Lee jacks off in the abbreviated third vignette, and it's nice to see him one more time. It really is too bad he burned out so quickly, because he has real screen presence and simply exudes sex.
Lin turns up again for an "audition" with Rob Lee. Of course, we all know what that means, although I doubt if the fine, hard-working folks at Catalina want people to wonder if this is how they really audition potential models. Both Lee and Lin have trouble with English, and while Lee is certainly up to the task at hand, I did not find him appealing at all. To be fair, their desktop fuck has some heat.
The always-delightful Tommy Cruise makes a welcome appearance in the final scene with Jean Russo Chen, who giggles in seeming disbelief that he's actually in bed, like, you know, having sex. In any case, no one is more appealing than Tommy Cruise when he's bent over, begging to be fucked harder, man, HARDER! Ah, there's nothing like a sex pig in his element. Aside from the heat Cruise and James bring to their sex, enjoy Asian Persuasion 2 more for the eye-candy appeal of the models than anything else.
- J.C. Adams