Reviewed by SexHerald Staff
Here’s the thing: we forgive the ludicrous plot lines and hideous acting in porn films because we’re not generally watching to see how the story will all turn out. We just move on, maybe we fast forward, and we get to the sex, which is what we’re all tuning in for anyway. Except, that’s the problem with Studio 2000’s latest Bar Trade. Not only is the acting potentially the worst I’ve ever seen (in porn!), the sex is, quite simply, not hot. Some of the guys are flat out unattractive. A fair number of them can’t seem to maintain a hard on. And though the plot is actually kind of intriguing (straight guy strips in gay bar, is conflicted about it, ends up fucking a bunch of guys), you just end up back with that sorry excuse for acting and another scene of uninspired sex.
There’s a bloopers reel on the DVD that is fairly revealing. A lot of people are laughing. They talk between takes and joke with each other. Their interest in the sex they’re having? That seems nil. And it shows.
Jason Harley stars as the straight stripper on his first night working a gay bar. His friend, Damon Phoenix, is in the audience rooting him on, then telling him the real money is in the backroom. Harley hedges about having sex with dudes, but he goes to the back to watch a four-way, just to see what it’s like. Umm…right.
There are a few moments throughout that are almost worth watching. During the fourway, Troy Moore has one of the more impressive cumshots I’ve seen, and Rafael Alencar acquits himself nicely in his scene with Phoenix. But the good is really overwhelmed by the bad as Bar Trade commits the cardinal sin of porn: it makes sex boring.
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