May 26, 2023
Ad creative director Conrad Bautista (Rico Barrera) and Laurene Uytingco (Julia Victoria) had been lovers for seven years. One constant source of stress for Conrad was his abusive boss Max (Ping Medina), who just so happened to be Laurene's elder brother. When Max hired another creative director Rain Buenasol (Paolo Rivero) to go head to head with him, Conrad decided he's had enough.
One night, Conrad and Laurene attended the party of Easton Cornejo (Angelo Ilagan), who had just come home after seven years in New York City. Easton was opening his own advertising agency and was offering Conrad to be his creative partner in his new business, and even introduced him to a potential first client Amy Sandiego (Apple Castro). Conrad was interested, but was there a catch?
This is the story of a man who was forced to work beyond his limits in order for him to be able to keep his job and his girl. His sadistic taskmaster boss Max overworked Conrad during office hours, while his sexually-insatiable girlfriend Laurene worked Conrad to the bone any time and any place she wanted to. Rich boy Easton had a horse ranch in Talisay, so there was a horse in number of scenes, but the title did not exactly refer to the animal.
Despite being the veteran (being the first housemate evicted from PBB1 in 2005), Rico Barrera's acting was still as stiff as his unnatural-looking trimmed beard. The rest of the cast are all newcomers, so you cannot really expect too much. Julia Victoria's Laurene was very frank and flirty, but her role did not give her much more to do. It was Angelo Ilagan who showed the most promise among them with his sensitive portrayal of the libertine Easton.
Director Gianfranco Morciano worked with a screenplay written by Winfred Santos and Ping Medina. The threadbare story was a mere excuse to string along a series of sex scenes, as is expected from the Vivamax brand. Like the film that debuted last week "Sandwich," this one also went beyond regular couple sex into threesome territory more than once with various permutations of actors, but stopped short of consummation on the final tryst. 2/10.
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