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Man-Driller
Rating: 2 Stars
Directed by Csaba Borbély. Written and photographed by Thomas Bradford. Edited by Alexander Gray. Starring Antal Posza, Leslie Manzel, Andreas Harris, Sergio Foster, Paul Skerritt, Janos Volt, Ken Spencer, Fred Goldsmith, Eddie Schulz, Randy Jones, Luciano Endino, Jonathan Collins, Daniel Paxton, Tony Magera, Roberto Giorgio, Claudio Antonelli, Jack Laurel, Soto Donovan, and Arthur Roth.
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Pacific Sun Entertainment has recently uncorked an inundation of videos and DVDs made in Eastern Europe by convulsively prolific Csaba Borbély. The Borbély rep company includes some attractive, hard-working models, notably Luciano Endino (a.k.a. Luciano Carroll) and Jonathan Collins, but after you've watched two or three of these paint-by-number productions, they fuse in your memory. The military-themed Man-Driller offers a threesome that briefly expands to a foursome, a threesome that doesn't expand into anything, and two six-man orgies. It's your basic basic-training porn, full of exertion and yet hypnotically dull. The editing jumps from pose to sexual pose; the soundtrack is plastered with cattle grunts meant to suggest orgasmic ecstasy.

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This is one of those Euro-porn videos whose English subtitles command more attention than the sex. Cryptic orders like "Make a raw!" keep getting issued. Sometimes, as in "The rule comes to action by today's night," the wording has a Shakespearean lilt. It helps that Borbély shares his late Hungarian colleague Steve Cadro's taste in robust young men, but his output lacks the literacy, intelligence, and imagination present in Cadro's best work. (Borbély's habit of giving Czech and Hungarian models pointlessly pseudo-American names like Ken Spencer or Jonathan Collins is, however, preferable to Cadro's penchant for silly monikers like "Tom of Hunland.") Thomas Bradford's videography is briskly professional, especially in outdoor drill scenes. Indoors, where all the sex takes place, the lighting goes awry; in the closing segment, corpse-like yellow highlights appear on the models' pecs and abs.