It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

You know, how hard can it be to make a decent softcore skin flick? It's not like the standards of the genre are all that high. No one expects them to be well written or well directed. The actors aren't expected to do more than correctly pronounce their dialog. All folks want out of them is just enough of a story so they don't feel embarrassed about watching hot chicks taking off their clothes and writing around in a sexual manner. Yet, so many softcore skin slicks are like Sexual Intrigue and are so aggressively terrible that they make you feel like you're watching hardcore porn where all the penetration has been edited out. And then some of them, like Sexual Intrigue, can't even get the hot chicks part right.Charlie Taylor (Eric Acsell) just got out of jail. After banging his songwriter girlfriend Randi (Kira Reed), who claims she waited for him the entire year he was behind bars, he gets a nebulous job working for Emma De Layle (Kim Dawson), the wife of a shady rich guy. It turns out that Emma wants Charlie to help her fake the kidnapping of the rich guy's daughter, Melissa (Zette), for a million dollar ransom. Melissa is in on the deal and they'll split the money three ways. Well, in addition to being a stupid man whore, Charlie is also set up to be the pasty as Emma's scheme isn't quite what it appears to be.Let's get the important stuff out of the way first. There are only three chicks who get naked in this movie. None of them are anything to look at from the waist up and only two of them are anything to look at from the waist down. Each chick has multiple, pedestrian sex scenes where she basically does the same things over and over, so before this thing is halfway over, you'll have more than your fill of seeing these women take off their clothes.As for the story…well, I could comment on the nearly countless stupid little things that happen, like the movie opening with Charlie walking down the road and apparently finding an abandoned car that he gets in and starts driving away. It turns out that it was his car, but why the hell was he walking in the first place? Or how Randi magically appears at the end of the movie to help Charlie out of a jam, even though there's no way she could have know he was in trouble or where he was. Or how we see Charlie pick up a murder weapon and take it with him at one point in the movie, yet the same murder weapon magically remains at the scene to be found by police. But all of that isn't much different than you find in other softcore skin flicks.No, it's really the plot of Sexual Intrigue that drags it below the line of acceptable entertainment for its genre. It turns out the pretend kidnapping is even more pretend than Charlie first knows. Emma isn't the rich man's wife, she's his mistress. Melissa isn't his daughter, she's just some girl they want Charlie to think is the daughter. But then it turns out that the rich man's real daughter has been kidnapped, presumably by Emma and other accomplices, though that's never actually spelled out. So they really kidnap the real daughter and then they fake kidnap a fake daughter. Then Emma and company kill the fake daughter, apparently intending to frame Charlie for the murder. The real daughter, though, is not killed. The bad guys also kill the fake daughter before Charlie turns the money over to them. In fact, according to their plan, there was no way Charlie could turn the money over before finding out about the murder, so how exactly did they expect to get the million dollars from Charlie after he knew they were framing him for killing the fake daughter?That's all pretty confused, but the dumbness doesn't stop there. The only way the whole silly scheme can work is if the cops don't believe Charlie about the whole fake kidnapping thing being Emma's idea. But why wouldn't they? If Charlie kidnapped the real daughter, what was he doing with this other girl? If Charlie was trying to pull off a fake kidnapping, how they hell could a guy fresh out of jail pull that off without inside help? It's almost like the plot was supposed to be Emma and Melissa kidnapping the real daughter, getting Charlie involved in a fake kidnap plot, then killing the real daughter and framing Charlie for that so the cops think Charlie and the real daughter hatched the fake kidnapping and Charlie then betrayed and killed her, while Emma and Melissa make off with the million dollars. It's almost like that was supposed to be the plot, but then writer/director J. Edie Martin got hit in the head with a lead pipe during shooting and forgot what the hell he was doing.Sexual Intrigue will insult your intelligence while only offering up marginally attractive women to ogle. Find something better to watch.

With both Kira Reed and Kim Dawson performing their erotic arts, this movie could be about a quilting bee and still be worth watching.As it is, the movie has a decently intriguing plot about kidnapping, murder, a frame up, and of course, the challenge of finding out how many of the principle characters can simulate having sex with each other.The scene with Kim Dawson's see thru bra alone is worth the price of the movie, or the time to watch it. Its a truly instant turn on look from a male point of view.My rating here is compared to other media of its type. Its certainly not an 8 compared to mainstream films. Compared to other soft core erotica, however, its excellent work.

So many imdb reviewers have amply cited the degree to which the simulated sex scenes in these fake f-ck flicks defy any attempt on the part of any viewer to imagine anything remotely plausible, anatomically. That being the case, the time is long past due to mention the other assault -- that on auditory sensation -- all too often inflicted.Specifically, what the credits term "music" must, at least once, be questioned. What in the world possessed those responsible to perform such an atrocity upon the Bach "Two-part Invention"?Stipulated, any person depicted in one of these cinematic soft-core works has to be borderline-retard in order to explain their presence. But even that explanation defies how Reed's portrayal as a songwriter squares with the attacks upon Johannis Sebastiani Magni!

I gave this film a "5" because actresses Kira Reed (real name: Kira Katherine Reed) and Kim Dawson are pretty to look at for the length of the this brightly lit California lifestyle story.Kira stars with her real life husband (since 1997) Daniel Anderson (also known in other films as Dugan Hayes or Duggan Hayes). Together, they are creating soft porn style movies with a real story line. They even have two websites to sell their film wares and promote their endeavors. The acting is better than amateurish and shows that Ms. Reed has the gumption and business acumen to better capitalize on her most lovely sexuality. The photography of the film is well done with brightly lit scenes and good set selection.However, the story is not believable. Kira plays Randi Davis who lives in a really nice expensive Malibu home with no apparent source of income. Kira's current boyfriend, Charlie Taylor, played by Eric Acsell has been releasedfrom prison "early" after serving 1 year. He apparently did not commit the crime and took the rap! He comes back to Randi and he moves in while on parole (although the movie writer does not know the difference between probation and parole -- all the time referring in the script as Charlie being on "probation.").Now, Carl Olsen (Daniel Anderson) is the "District Attorney" and gets personally involved in a scheme with Randi. Why? Carl was Randi's former lover before she met Charlie. Why would Randi select Charlie who has no potential over lawyer Carl who is going places? Unbelievable script. Kim Dawson, playing Emma De Layle, is posing "to Charlie, Randi, and Carl" as rich-man Lance De Layle's wife. The plot is to kidnap Lance's 20 year old daughter Melissa De Layle, played by goofy-acting Zette Sullivan, who is also part of the plan to keep one-third of the $1 million ransom which is being asked for.Twists - the real Mrs. De Layle and daughter Melissa are really "on the Continent" in Europe. So, these impostors are part of the kidnapping and a murder all the while boyfriend Charlie is running back and forth trying to "understand" what is happening. Was it pool-boy Malcolm Daniels played by Stephen Francis?Are you tired of this story, already?Watch the movie if you want to see (real husband-wife) Kira and Daniel making love to each other and the further sexual activities of Kira, Kim, Stephen, and Eric. Nothing too distasteful for the movie screen in the year, 2000!Kira and Daniel's movie making career will generate them lots of money providing they find good quality scripts that are "believable."