4.75
out of 5.00 -
Film:
5
Extras:
4
Video:
5
Audio:
5
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12/29/2006
As porn viewers, we always get excited when one of our favorite girls does something on camera that she's never done before (or hasn't done for a long time). Now imagine if a performer decided to devote an entire movie to trying new things on camera. Well, that's exactly what fans will get with
Julia Ann: Hardcore, one of the hottest movies Julia Ann has done in a long, long time.
The movie, which was originally titled "Julia Ann: Darkside," but most likely got changed because so many other porn movies have been using that term the past few years, begins with an interracial scene with Sean Michaels. Before the action begins, Julia introduces the scene by telling us she shot a segment with Sean a long time ago, but the footage was ruined and has never been seen by the public. Even though Julia explores some of her kinkier fantasies in this title, each scene is shot with the kind of glamorous "look" we'd expect from Wicked Pictures (the movie was directed by Jonathan Morgan). The pairing between Julia and Sean takes place on a bed, and the room has been soft-lit with white light. During the action, Julia takes Sean's (reportedly) 11" cock in the reverse cowgirl, cowgirl, doggy and missionary positions. A pop-shot onto her ample chest concludes the scene.
Julia claims that she wanted to do an anal scene with Manuel Ferrara ever since she saw and heard about him a couple years back when he won AVN's Male Performer of the Year. Wearing a black dress and fishnets and reclining on a red cushion that revolves as the scene takes place, Julia gets her backdoor pumped in the spoon and reverse cowgirl positions (after vaginal penetration) and gets Manuel's load jerked down into her mouth and onto her face.
One of the hottest scenes in
Julia Ann: Hardcore is a blow-bang session with John West, Marcus London, Jack Venice and Eric Masterson. It's especially sexy since about halfway through the scene it morphs from a simple blowjob-only session to a mini-gangbang, as each guy takes a turn fucking her. The first pop-shot here is the best, as Julia gets a creamy facial, with the remaining guys jerking their loads onto her chest.
Never thought you'd see Julia take two cocks at the same time? Well think again! Playing a nurse in a psych ward (and looking hot in a latex outfit), Julia takes on Randy Spears and Tommy Gunn in a scene that concludes with Julia getting double penetrated - with Tommy in her pussy, and Randy up her ass. The only real downside here is that the scene is edited in such a way that the guys are already inside her holes when we see the DP footage (we don't get to enjoy watching them work their way in). The action concludes with what almost constitutes a double-facial, although Tommy's pop-shot is more to Julia's neck and chin (Randy does hit the target, thankfully!).
The next to last scene has Julia hooking up with ex-boyfriend Julian for a POV scene. If I had to pick my least favorite scene in the movie, I'd probably go with this one. The POV angles are great, but Jonathan Morgan also keeps cutting away from the POV stuff to a "regular" angle that's not nearly as appealing. On top of that, he totally mis-shoots the pop-shot, with a non-POV angle that is a little too far away from the performers to enjoy it. Just for the record, the climax has Julia sucking and wanking on Julian's cock until he bursts - mainly back onto himself and Julia's hand, although a little bit does land on her chin, and she does take time to suck him dry after he's blown his load.
I've never been a big fan of ending straight porn titles with all-girl scenes (if I had my way, I would have swapped this scene with the Julia/Randy/Tommy scene in order of appearance for this movie), but there's no denying we get a hot one here - as Gia Paloma plays dominatrix to "slaves" Julia Ann and Roxy DeVille. Julia begins the scene in a cage, and Gia brings a bound Roxy over to sit on top of the cage so Julia can lick her pussy out from below. After letting her out of the cage, the two girls move Julia over to a couch where they use a pink vibe on her pussy and spank her with a paddle. They also use a larger, purple vibe on her. Donning a strap-on, Roxy fucks Julia in the reverse cowgirl position, and then pounds her ass doggy style. Gia also puts on a strap-on, and the scene wraps up with Julia being DP'd by the two girls.
The movie is presented on DVD in anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The extras are pretty good, although they fall just short of a rating that would have given this title a perfect score (I'm sad to see that Julia Ann and Jonathan Morgan
didn't do a commentary track). There's a 17-minute Behind The Scenes featurette; a bonus scene between Julia and Eric Masterson taken from the release of
Beautiful; the trailer for this movie and six other Wicked releases; plus slide shows, bios and the usual promo materials you'll find on most Wicked DVDs.
Julia Ann: Hardcore is the kind of title that could reenergize her career. It should certainly reenergize her fan base, who haven't seen Julia perform like this on camera since...well, ever!
By:
Spooky