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Sharp Shooters
Rating: 2 Stars
Produced by Jack Hazzard and James Geniuk. Edited and directed by Chip Daniels. Written by Jim Gary. Videography by Jack Hazzard. Music by Joe Z. Starring Mark Mason, Tony Cummings, K.C. Hart, Brent Cross, Paul Morgan, Marco Antonio, Jean Riviera, Tony West, and Scott Davis.
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Preceding Brokeback Mountain by about eight years, Chip Daniels's cowboy romance Sharp Shooters seems worth exhuming just for the fun of discovering its unexpected new resonance. Nevertheless, this porno horse-opera's wobbly craftsmanship shows how much this director and his colleagues at Centaur Films have learned since 1997. Daniels and company have been turning out better work in recent years, including Tight Ends and Wide Receivers, Man Hunter, and the Wild Rangers series. Here the models may get through lines like "Boy, I'm gonna ride you hard and put you away wet!" without laughing, but their community-theater acting skills can't keep the klutzy, maudlin script from becoming an embarrassment.

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ortunately, the cast's strong suit is sex. The models include a few formerly ubiquitous erotic athletes now rarely seen-- Paul Morgan, Jean Riviera, and Marco Antonio, to name three. Brawny Mark Mason, the Sheriff of Dry Gulch, and his dim, faithful boyfriend (sweet-faced Tony Cummings, who slightly resembles Jake Gyllenhaal) are non-actors with a limited sexual range, though they fuck with gusto and look terrific in their Western gear. The supporting cast fares better, especially Paul Morgan and Scott Davis as, respectively, a man targeted for abduction by outlaws trafficking in male flesh, and the bartender who rescues him. Their post-rescue encounter, heavy on consoling oral interplay, is the sizzling high-point of this vintage mixed bag.