The Villa (2005 Video) User Reviews

Porn you can appreciate as a film.

[Manic_1 · 9/10 · 1 July 2005]

My friends spotted this at our local Hustler store and it's done incredibly well. The cinematography is top notch (especially for a porn movie). Oddly enough, the writing's not bad and the acting varies (Janine does well, but Jassie, for instance, doesn't do so well).

It's basically the plot of the film "Swimming Pool," but with hardcore sex. This may not be the best thing to buy if you're looking for porn for the reasons most people do, but this makes a strangely good movie to watch with friends. Even my female friends enjoy it (though they're film students).

It follows porn star Janine (apparently playing herself). It begins with an audition by a young woman new to the business that turns into a foursome (suprise!). Then a man we thought to be the director asks her to join him for some of his movies. She refuses, assuming it's amateur "gonzo" porn.

He insists that it's not like that. He wants her to direct, so he offers her his villa for a while so she can spend some time writing. Then she stumbles upon a threesome and meets a young woman (Hailey) who claims to be Janine's friends daughter he never spoke about. Janine allows her to stay as long as she doesn't bother her.

The sexual tension builds between the two (as I'm told they do in "Swimming Pool," although in this movie it gets paid off) and it remains for a surprisingly long before they finally have sex late in the movie. This movie is surprisingly good at subtlety.

Janine also meets a jogger with whom she becomes infatuated and most of the plot revolves around this.

The plot is rather simple, but surprisingly well done for a porn.

Poor Janine comeback vehicle

[lor_ · 5 January 2018]

I was amused after viewing "The Villa" to read the dumb review submitted to IMDb that made its similarity (i.e., ripoff in the tradition of porn-parody) to the French classic "Swimming Pool" something of a virtue.

No, this would-be comeback movie (among others from Vivid) for superstar of the previous decade Janine Lindemulder is typical shaggy-dog filmmaking, apparently entertaining for the dumber segment of the Adult viewing audience.

The non-story languorously unfolds at Evan Stone's lavish title villa, where Janine has gone to work on a screenplay for the porn actor/producer. This is after an indulgent opening scene where Janine is auditioning a young, would-be actress (fresh looking Tiana Lynn) in what becomes group-sex with her, Evan and her cameraman Julian. Both Janine and Julian sport their latterday trademark colorful tattoos at the 2004 time of filming.

Several meet-cutes with jogger Nick Manning lead to sex and violent arguments but the action in and out of the villa, including sex scenes at a bar/restaurant Nick owns, are all arbitrary and uninteresting. Tony G's screenplay is lousy, with unconvincing behavior by most of the cast, especially Evan's nymphette daughter Haley Paige, explained away by the trick ending: it's all revealed to be imaginary, just a story written by Janine, with the scenes we thought were really happening just portrayed by the actors she's employed. That makes a horrible plot twist involving Nick's accidental death and a "Diabolique" sudden change of mood all "okay" because they were phony.

Thus, PT and his frequent collaborator Tony G bamboozle the dumb viewer and make him (or her) like it, evidenced by the automatic and phony award nominations handed out like clockwork to this stinker. Main points of interest devolve onto the sexual content, not the writing/direction/acting, as Haley is permitted to upstage the contract superstar Janine as much sexier of the two, while supporting antagonist Jassie keeps squirting on cue, a ridiculous element that Manning even openly mocks in the BTS short subject included as bonus on the DVD.