Muscle Penitentiary

With each successive production, director Blue Blake seems to improve -- and he started off pretty great to begin with, so that's saying something. In this production, we find ourselves once again behind bars, a familiar milieu to anyone who is a fan of gay porn. Although the setting is familiar, Blake does his own take on the theme, which involves his specialty, well-hung muscle studs. The aspect of this production that is most striking, as opposed to Blake's earlier work, is that there is a greater feeling of fluidity. In his earlier work, Blake's direction seemed almost too tightly controlled. In "Muscle Penitentiary," however, the performers seem to be more liberated -- they talk more, they move more, and they seem to fuck and suck with greater abandon, and Blake's camera and editing do their job very well, which is to capture the action without being noticed. These are all good things, of course. Blake also makes the most out of a very few cast members, while most major productions these days seem to have casts of thousands. But Blake needs only seven to get the job done. Think about it: four scenes, seven studs -- and one of the scenes involves a three-way. The standout in the cast, without doubt, is Jim Slade, who also deservedly got top billing. Jim stars in two scenes, one with slab-o-beef Jake Gianelli, the other with mega-hung Chad Hunt and stud Carlo Cox, and in both he is a total bottom. Each time he steals the scene, with a combination of energy, abandon, and fiery onscreen heat. In the scene with Jake, Jim's orange prison coveralls seem to be especially tailored to his round, ripe ass, and when he leans over Jake, who plays a guard, understandably gets a major hardon. Jake's thick prong is too delicious a temptation for Jim, and he slobbers on it before the two even get undressed. When the clothes come off, both studs have major erections, and they kiss hotly while their swords play below. Then, Blake manages to show off each hunk's asshole, and it...