Friday, April 28, 2023

Vivamax: Review of SEX GAMES: Exploit for Entertainment

April 28, 2023



The relationship sexy movie actress Debbie (Sheree Bautista) and her second husband, businessman Bobby (Josef Elizalde) began with an instant sexual attraction at first sight. From the start, sex had been the primary force that kept their relationship going. Now ten years in their wedding, the couple now found regular sex boring, and needed to spice things up with sex games, ranging from role playing to multiple partners.

Wanting more to engage in a challenging scenario to their games, Debbie introduced Bobby to Shiela (Azi Acosta) and her boyfriend Alvin (Benz Sangalang). They were a young couple of limited financial means. Seeing that the virtue of the couple would be hard to break (both of them once aspired a religious vocation), Debbie proposed a competition to Bobby as to who would be able to lure them for a voluntary romp in bed. 

Most of National Artist for Film and Broadcast Ricky Lee's recent output had been sexy films streamed on the Vivamax app. After the first one, "Nerisa" (Law Fajardo, 2021), all his subsequent Vivamax films were directed by Mac Alejandre: "My Husband, My Lover" (2021), "Silip sa Apoy" (2022), "Bela Luna" (2023) and now this new one "Sex Games." Lee and Alejandre also had a film released in cinemas -- "May-December-January" (2022). 

The name of Ricky Lee can add more respectability to a Vivamax film, even if its main purpose was still to serve prurient motivations. His stories mostly involved complicated characters with complicated problems. In all of his Vivamax films, director Mac Alejandre always had an assuredly lush visual style and carefully choreographed bed scenes. Here, electric neon lights were a distinct part of his production design. 

Sheree Bautista was among the original lineup of the Viva Hot Babes formed in 2001, along with Maui Taylor, Katya Santos, Gwen Garci, Andrea del Rosario (who was also in the cast of this film as a therapist). While the other Sex Bomb girls now mainly play clothed supporting roles on Vivamax, seasoned veteran Sheree showed that she can still bare her body as boldly as any one of those young starlets out there. 

Since the story was about sex games, this of course opened the floodgates for director Alejandre to portray all kinds of sexual situations which Debbie and Bobby engaged in. One daring scene depicted foreplay with a transwoman (Francine Garcia). Another scene practically depicted a rape of a teenage girl (Joharah Alonzo), which was very disgusting. Scenes of teasing felt more erotic than those graphic ones, less can indeed be more. 4/10. 


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