Faithless (Vivid)

Kelli McCarty can act, but she’s underused in Faithless. Also, she’s hot. The second part is the reason to watch Faithless, the new Paul Thomas effort from Vivid. It is, like most of his movies, somewhat coherent, with a number of decent actors – Voodoo and Steven St. Croix, mostly, aside from McCarty – battling manfully against an inexplicable storyline. On the plus side, McCarty, the reason this movie was made, is much hotter than I thought she was going to be. Her acting skills weren’t the main reason she was hired – the Miss USA title has a much sexier draw – but she really can act. That’s rarely a necessity in porn, but she does have quite a bit of appeal. She looks and sounds good while she’s fucking, having honed her craft in plenty of softcore, and that’s enough to make Faithless worthwhile. The bottom line is that if you’re looking for a great story that hangs together and has something to say, you might want to go back to Cry Wolf, but if you’re one of those people who want to see celebrities naked and fucking, you should grab Faithless, because this is decent porn -- much better than the sorts of things you’re going to see if you’ve been buying celebrity sex tapes.

Basically: Voodoo is the one relatively understandable character in the movie -- a regular guy who is going out with Daisy Marie, a spoiled, manipulative, bitchy daddy’s girl whose father is Steven St. Croix -- a heartless, insensitive, cheating asshole who is fucking his best friend’s wife, Kelly Leigh, even though he is married to Kelli McCarty, whom he he professes to like even though he treats her like shit, which is actually the understandable position because she is a bipolar, scheming drama whore who goes out of her way to fuck Voodoo, who goes right ahead with it even though he seems to understand right from the beginning what a terrible idea it is. Also in the mix is James Deen, who competently portrays James Deen (as he does in every movie) and fucks Jennifer Dark in the traditional throw-away scene. Jennifer Dark plays a friend of Daisy’s; her name, in one of the movie’s many mysterious little weirdnesses, is "Chan Sook" even though she is not Asian and hails from the Czech Republic. Herschel Savage also appears briefly in a non-sex role as St.Croix’s cuckolded best friend.

The thing to focus on here is McCarty, who seems to be so hot that she draws record-breaking performances from both St. Croix and Voodoo, both of whom have great scenes with her. The scene with St.Croix reminds me of a story I heard about another performance of his, in which his money shot was so powerful that it knocked over a cardboard cutout a dozen feet away. In an interview, director D. Cypher told me that during the shooting of Wonderland, St. Croix grew to dislike his costar Violet Blue so much that the resulting final grudge-fuck culminated in a cumshot that could have killed someone at close range, and the St. Croix/McCarty scene and finish here makes me wonder if there was a similar dynamic in play – he throws her around, uses her harshly, and ends up unloading about a gallon of spunk that ends up falling on her face and hair from about four feet up, because that’s how high he shoots it. Interestingly, Voodoo manages an uncharacteristically large load as well, which makes me wonder if McCarty is a really amazing fuck or if she was a thorough-going bitch during filming. I can imagine her walking on set with a sky-high attitude, feeling like she’s Miss-Fucking-America and these are a bunch of no-account amateurs who fuck on camera because they couldn’t make it in Hollywood. Interviews and press coverage I have seen of her make her look like a pretty sweet girl, though, so I am doing my best to imagine her as a nice person..

Anyway, both of McCarty’s scenes are sufficiently hot to render the rest of the disc superfluous, even though Voodoo and Daisy Marie bring off a great outdoor sex scene in what seems to be a creekbed. James Deen gets a blowjob scene and a full fuck with Jennifer Dark, as well as a minor role in the development of the plot, such as it is. St. Croix also does a full scene with Kelly Leigh, who plays his best friend’s wife. It’s another violent scene, with some S&M overtones and some creepy overtones – they’re not necessarily the same thing – that in a better-organized movie might have shed some light on his character, but in this one just make you wonder why anyone would have married him in the first place, not to mention why he would have married anyone either. Daisy Marie plays her part to perfection, as does everyone else, as long as you accept that everyone in the movie is supposed to be playing an unlikeable character.

Kelli McCarty, the reason this movie was made, is much hotter than I thought she was going to be. Her acting skills weren’t the main reason she was hired – the Miss USA title has a much sexier draw – but she really can act. That’s rarely a necessity in porn, but she does have quite a bit of appeal. She looks and sounds good while she’s fucking, having honed her craft in plenty of softcore, and that’s enough to make Faithless worthwhile. The bottom line is that if you’re looking for a great story that hangs together and has something to say, you might want to go back to Cry Wolf, but if you’re one of those people who want to see celebrities naked and fucking, you should grab Faithless, because this is decent porn -- much better than the sorts of things you’re going to see if you’ve been buying celebrity sex tapes.... Read the Full Review!