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Bolt: The Expanded Edition
Rating: 4 Stars
Produced by Joe Slade. Directed by Chi Chi LaRue. Written by Chris Steele and Chi Chi LaRue. Videography by Hue Wilde, Adam Killian, and Charles Stevens. Edited by Scott Coblio. Music by J.D. Slater and Scott Coblio. Starring Johnny Hazzard, Lance Gear, Eddie Stone, Jan Fischer, Brandon Lee, Tristan Bennet, Theo Blake, Gus Mattox, Shane Rollins, Zak Spears, Owen Hawk, Tag Adams, Rick Gonzalez, Rob Romoni, Alex LeMonde, Kent Larson, Rod Barry, Troy Punk, Sebastian Tauza, Dillon Press, Anthony Shaw, Kyle Lewis, and Rick Razor.
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In Bolt, Chi Chi LaRue's gift for group-sex production numbers shifts into bad-boy gear and nearly runs amok. The premise of this supersized wallow owes something to Stock, the two-part dystopian epic LaRue and John Rutherford co-directed in 1998 for Jocks Studios. Like Stock, Bolt depicts a future where humanity has neatly split into masters and slaves; like Stock, Bolt doesn't completely make sense. "In the not so distant future," reads the opening crawl, "sex is ruled by a certain few. The rebels live only to serve...." But before you can figure out what the hell that's supposed to mean, you find yourself watching feral Johnny Hazzard getting fucked by über-daddy Zak Spears on a plate-glass table, and coherence no longer matters.

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Hazzard also has carnivorous sex with Lance Gear; there's a potent sequence pairing muscular Kent Larson with elaborately inked Brandon Lee. But the two most memorable episodes are go-for-broke orgies. The first takes place in an interrogation chamber that looks like a men's room in hell, and involves collaborative efforts to make Tag Adams talk. Realizing a voracious bottom-boy's wildest dreams seems an odd approach to torture, but the eight-man scene is explosive. Finally, there's an extraordinary sexual jamboree for 11 participants that runs, in unabbreviated form, for more than an hour. The segment begins with five captured rebels in ripped underwear being wheeled out in steel-framed glass cages, and peaks when they're literally screwed.

Bolt is full of transgressive atmospherics-- industrial grunge, dripping water, hanging chains, steel urinals, ripped underwear-- but no heavy-duty sadomasochism, and no fisting. (The mail-order "director's cut" has a piss-play sequence; that's as far as Bolt goes.) But the powerhouse cast and close-to-demonic direction create the illusion that nothing is being held back.

Three versions of Bolt are floating around: (1) the single-disk retail edition widely available for rental; (2) the three-disk expanded edition reviewed here; (3) the director's cut marketed via TLAVideo.com. There is also a "Hardware Pack" edition that provides an example of the screw-shaped chrome dildo used in the closing scene.