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Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced, written, and directed by Dan Cross. Videography by Ed Maxxx. Edited by Andrew Rosen. Starring Paul Carrigan, Jason Hawke, Jeremy Jordan, Drew Peters, Brett Wilde, Tony Ryan, Ty Parks, Jack Ryan, Mike Austin, Rick Ritter, and Ryan Scott.
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The best asset of this All Worlds Seven Deadly Sins installment is adult-looking hunk Paul Carrigan in one of his rare major roles, but he's cast as a dispirited, youth-obsessed bore. Lured into a private room at a dimly lit bathhouse, he has robust sex with Mike Austin, who later asks his age. When Carrigan admits to being forty, Austin recoils as if told that a meal he'd just savored contained rat parts. Peering into his mirror at home, Carrigan laments, "Face it: you are old. Your sex life is over."

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He starts prowling around gay hot spots where, with hangdog envy, he ogles younger men. At a cinema, he imagines the youthful male couple three rows ahead of him joyfully sucking and fucking. At a gay beach, he imagines five collegiate types disporting themselves as a duo and a trio. The action in this sequence, shot on a stylized set, gets clunky and confusing, but there are rewards, like the presence of Ty Parks, a lad who, when he smiles, almost morphs into Audrey Tautou.

Just as you start to think Carrigan ought to be slathered with mustard and fed to Cole Tucker, he makes a pact with the devil, trading everything he has for youth. He changes into deluxe, fresh-faced centerfold model Jason Hawke, a transformation that helps him find romance with perky ubertwinkie Ryan Scott, but in no sense constitutes an improvement. The encounter between Hawke and Scott lacks the power of Carrigan's only sex scene, but maybe that's the point. Presumably, in the forthcoming Redemption, the follow-up to all seven parts of this series, the final chapter will restore Carrigan's fortyish appearance, set him straight about ageism, and pair him off with a grownup.