Sexual Intrigue (2001)

Why so much hype?

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* Kira Reed needs to get her boyfriend a job. She hooks him up with Kim Dawson. This can only lead to sexual intrigue. The boyfriend is hired by Dawson to pull off a kidnapping so that they can split the ransom. He's also good to have around for sex. In fact, the boyfriend gets sexually intrigued by most of the females in the movie. They're very intriguing. You can't blame him."Sexual Intrigue" is a fine skin flick. You just need to ignore the kidnapping angle and concentrate on the sex scenes. That won't be too hard to do with Kira Reed and Kim Dawson having most of the sex. Reed has three sex scenes. The best one has her having sex in the hot tub with her boyfriend. Kim Dawson also has three sex scenes and they're all good. Kim Dawson is always a sight for sore eyes in these movies. You need to have the horny, older woman around to seduce the young, dumb guys. But with Dawson, it doesn't take much seducing effort to get the party started. Both of these women are very sexually intriguing. They make "Sexual Intrigue" worth a look.

This film is an excellent representative of the soft core genre. It has beautiful women, highly charged simulated sex scenes, and a worthy plot to boot. In my opinion, Kim Dawson dominatea the picture; this classy woman seems to get better as she gets more mature. Here she plays a nasty b--ch to a T, a characterization she excels in, Too bad no credit listing is given for the sexy young thing that plays Meliisa, Kim's stepdaughter in the film.