Title: Folsom Leather Studio: TitanMen Director: Brian Mills Cast: Alex Baresi, Tober Brandt, Butch Grand, David Korben, Francois Sagat, Rick Van Savant, Arpad Miklos, Brendan Davies, Adam Faust, Tyler Saint Genres:: Gay, Anal, Leather, Oral Condoms: Yes Reviewer: Daniel Kelly

Rating:

There is no question about it. If you love muscular, masculine, hairy men in leather, Folsom Leather seems like a dream come true. These are the biggest and best men in the biz at the moment. Yet the meat of the film doesn’t quite deliver the sexual intensity you want to see these men exuding. The majority of the fetish content is in the bonus content on the second disc, including an ass stretching dildo scene, which makes you wonder why they saved the best for—well, a second disc that isn’t part of the main feature, which could definitely use a boost of adrenalin.

There are quite a few satisfying moments in this film. First off, the leather aspects are phenomenal. Each and every man looks like he was born and built to wear leather. The ever luscious Sagat looks has never looked better than he does with his hands bound above him, in nothing more than a leather harness and jockstrap, and a gag ball in his mouth. And we can’t help but salivate when his astounding ass gets rimmed in that position. In fact, some of the ripest booties around are subjected to fantastic rim jobs, as well as hot but not long enough spankings. The film is also loaded with, well, some of the juiciest loads. The cum shots are spectacular.

Then there is the moment many of us have been waiting for. The hyper-butch top Tober Brandt taking it up the ass. Oh yeah! However, his bottoming performance is a total copout. It’s one of those totally controlled situations where he bends over just enough to take it, doesn’t relinquish control enough to seem like he’s truly into it because of a lame ‘taking it like a man’ façade instead of a ‘fuck, that actually feels really good to my top man ass’ realism. He SAYS it feels fucking good, but I’m not convinced. And to top it all off (so to speak) the camera doesn’t deliver the penetration footage that we so long for! The man gets fucked for quite a while, both bending over and on his back, but it just feels so staged and mechanical. Bummer.

That isn’t the only disappointment. The flawless Alex Baresi has his hair-covered bubble butt screwed by power top Arpad Miklos. Theoretically, this is the ideal top/bottom team. And usually, when a director gets Baresi’s ass up in the air, the penetration footage is all a film needs. Tragically, it is lost here by lazy footage that doesn’t quite get in there, if you know what I mean. It is only when Butch Grand takes over the topping duties that things heat up, but still not to the level these men can deliver.

With such a superb cast and the word “Folsom” in the title, I expected more intensity from this film. Cumshots are great, rim jobs are unforgettable, Baresi is beautiful, Brandt bottoms, and Sagat is bound and gagged, but the pheromones just don’t fly the way one would expect under such an ideal set of circumstances.