Released in  2001 from Twilight Entertainment and Surrender Cinema, this film is written by Louise Monclair and directed by Madison Monroe. C.C. Costigan stars as Regina Pierce, a mysterious multimillionaire who is a patron of the arts. The film opens with her attending an art exhibit of old retro Hollywood movie posters. Then we see her sneak into a bathroom and set off a smoke bomb which activates the firm alarm which causes the place to be evacuated. When the dust settles, an expensive poster is missing.

Holly Sampson and Brian Heidik play Julie and Dan, the police detectives assigned to investigate the theft. This is unusual because the first time we see them in action, they’re setting up and arresting a prostitute, which indicates that they work in the Vice Squad, not in art theft. Anyway, Julie is still a rookie, recently assigned as Dan’s partner, and the two of them don’t get along. He’s always complaining about her work, and she feels like he’s not making any effort to trust her.

Now where the film fails, is that we know from the start that Regina is the thief. So the suspense should come from seeing how Jule and Dan figure this out, catch her, and uncover what her motives are. Yet, most of the film just drags on and meanders into other meaningless diversions. Vince Calladi and Amber Newman play Andrew and Marie, a couple who live for free in a guest room in Regina’s mansion. But the only “payment” Regina expects is that they let her sit and watch them have sex in front of her, whenever she wants to. Other than giving us some hot sex scenes, these characters’ involvement in the story is minimal. Samantha Phillips plays Connie, a prostitute whom Dan and Julie arrest early in the film. By sheer coincidence, she also occasionally performs lesbian sex shows online, and a woman she performs with is Marie, as we see Dan watching them on his computer once.  Dan interviews Regina since she was seen at the exhibit before it was robbed, and she aggressively flirts with him, which he resists at first but then gives in, and even for softcore film it feels a little too easy. Like, yeah, Costigan is sexy, but the way Dan just can’t resist her, even though he knows he shouldn’t get involved with her while the case is open, feels unrealistic.

In the end, Dan and Julie find out Regina is behind the theft, but when they go to her mansion to arrest her, she’s disappeared, leaving a postcard from Paris behind. So that’s it. Except in a final scene, Dan joins her in Paris, which also comes out of nowhere.

So, plot-wise, this is just a dull movie, even for the genre. This is no fault of the cast, who do the best with the material that they’re given, but that’s not enough to elevate the film. It’s one saving grace are the sex scenes. Amber Newman and Vince Calladi have three together. And there’s the aforementioned g/g scene of Amber with Samantha Phillips. C.C. Costigan and Brian Heidik (who I learned were married at the time, although they later divorced) have two scenes together. And Holly Sampson has a scene with Sean Juergens, who plays Julie’s boyfriend Troy. The scenes are all hot, but that’s really all this film has going for it, you’ll want to just fast-forward through the rest of it.

Chacebook rating: THREE STARS

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