Vivamax: Review of US X HER: Tiresome Threesome

November 25, 2022

Dave (Kiko Estrada) was a basketball star who had been sidelined from action because of repeated injuries. He met Mari (AJ Raval) as a new photographer at one of his photoshoots and they soon got married. However, four years later and they were still childless. When the pandemic hit, Dave's sausage business began to tank. 

Lila (Angeli Khang) was one of Dave's biggest fans back in his basketball days. One day, she called Dave to order sausages, and then invited him to cook them for her. It was not only Dave's spicy Hungarian sausage that Lila tasted that night. However, it turned out that their sneaky tryst was just a one-off thing for Dave, and that did not make Lila happy at all.

AJ Raval seemed to have matured considerably in her acting skills with her role here as Mari. She was confident here and was in control of what she wanted in her life. Unfortunately for Angeli Khang, she was saddled with a weaker, pathetic and more illogical role, that of a victim of sex abuse who also used sex to get back at her abuser. 

Kiko Estrada's Dave was such a loser it was difficult to understand why these two beautiful women are so obsessed with him. He was a klutz in sports. He was bad in business.He was an adulterous husband. And to top things all off, he was even a remorseless drug addict. Likely his skills in bed were also not enough, so the two girls went for each other. 

Writer-director Jules Katanyag did try to spice things up by incorporating some scenes staged like a play. This could have been an interesting touch, if only if the three actors were not so self-conscious during these theatrical interludes. Contrary to the sophistication which he probably hoped to achieve, these scenes turned out awkward and unintentionally comical.

This was supposed to be THE ideal combo in the Vivamax universe -- their supreme sirens AJ Raval and Angeli Khang in one movie. Unfortunately, this casting coup was totally wasted in this trite and tiresome triangle story. Vivamax must have had a whole pool of scripts at hand and they had to choose this insipid one to showcase their two top draws. What a waste. 1/10.