Faithless

Laura is a young woman who moves to Los Angeles with plans to become a movie star, but like so many others, she finds the path to stardom littered with dead ends and shut doors. Within months, she’s fallen into the bar career rat race and her drive starts to slip away.

Stuck in a holding pattern, she ends up fucking her married trainer with illusions that it may blossom into something more.

But then something strange happens; the longer Laura plays the role of cheater, the more she likes it. Will she hold onto her dreams and who she is amidst the temptation of this sordid new lifestyle or will she discover that she wasn’t who she thought she was in the first place?

This movie marks the first time Mike Quasar has collaborated with a writer on a Wicked Pictures project. “Faithless” was written by Shawn Alff, a self-proclaimed “literary smut peddler” who has penned many films for Jacky St. James over at Sweet Sinner. I like the way he weaved lots of moving parts together in this story. Everyone in this movie is cheating for one reason or another and all their secrets intersect, sometimes with their knowledge, sometimes not. I thought it was a nice dynamic that was effectively executed.

Whitney Wright is the star here and as she has led multiple features under the direction of Quasar in the past, I had high expectations for her performance. While she mostly delivered, I thought her narration in this movie was a little flat at times. Perhaps it was her periodic lack of inflection or the quick pacing of some of her lines (making it feel at times like she was racing through her dialogue) but whatever it was, she didn’t have the same natural believability in her narrative dialogue that I’ve seen from her in the past. That said, when she was speaking to other people in the movie, she sounded perfectly natural. For example, she has an argument with Ryan at one point and it is great work from the both of them. It feels relatable and Whitney’s words come across as heartfelt and genuine. I wish the narrative parts of her story had more of this type of emotional investment.

As for the supporting cast, Ryan Driller delivers his usual fantastic performance. He has an especially well-done sequence with Tommy Pistol in which both gentlemen were able to create an intense encounter that added a lot of plot heat to the story. Seriously, these two guys are great. Aaliyah Love is bubbly and personable as always, although her character shows an easy callousness that belies her friendly demeanor while the lovely Lacy Lennon portrays one of those thousands (as Laura labels them early on) looking to avoid having their dreams shattered by the crushing atmosphere of Los Angeles. The film’s most sympathetic character is easily Jessica Turner (Vandella) a hard-working indie studio head married to creative genius-but-bummy husband Gabe (Adams). The thing I loved about Vandella’s character is the way the expectations the audience is primed for concerning Laura are actually realized through Jessica. Laura was positioned to be the wide-eyed, unsure initiate into this world, but it was actually Jessica who played that role. That was a nice bit of storytelling from Alff.

Speaking of Vandella, her scene with Jake Adams is really nice. They’re sensual together and Sarah does a great job of fawning over Jake as a loving wife would. She also has a great body. Nice curvature to her hips, a rotund ass and tits that look wonderfully soft. She deepthroats Adams easily and her soft moans of ecstasy are quite appealing. I loved the way she wrapped her leg around Adams as he was eating her pussy and her soft naughty talk is a winner as well. The natural ass clap Sarah’s got going on when she rides Jake is great. Folks watching this movie could finish on that short sequence alone.

Lacy Lennon has been on my radar for a few months now and every time I see her name on a cast list I get excited. Her chestnut red locks are really mesmerizing and I just like the way she embraces the sex she’s having. After a surprisingly heartbreaking moment for Pistol, he calls up Lacy looking for comfort, only to reveal that he’s just as smarmy as people think executives are. As for the sex, this scene is a perfect example of what people can expect from Wicked’s Passions line. The entire encounter is full of dark colors that accentuate the pale bodies of Pistol and Lennon, giving the scene a very intimate feel.

The two performers also spend a ton of time kissing and caressing each other all over and it creates a wonderful physical connection between them that the viewer can practically feel. But the scene is anything but tame. Lacy gives Tommy’s balls some pretty aggressive squeezing during the blowjob and there’s a very quick but intense moment where she wraps a belt around both their necks and pulls Tommy in from some just-a-bit-rough kissing that’s kinda wild. Tommy rams her pretty good in spoon and even sneaks in a couple of slaps to her pussy before he takes her in doggie. It’s hot. Lacy is hot.

Laura and Gabe find some time to fool around in one of the guest rooms but the way the scene is presented gives the audience two different narrative perspectives and it’s pretty awesome. While Laura and Gabe are getting it on, there’s other relevant action happening elsewhere. This scene serves the plot and theme of the story more than any other (spoken or otherwise) in the movie. Adams spanks Wright often in this scene and she surrenders to it lustily. Look at her face when Jake has her face down on the bed, she raises her hips to his slaps willingly and stretches her body luridly in front of him, inviting him to take her however he wants her and the absolute sexiest thing she does in this scene is cross her legs while getting fucked on her back. Give me stuff like that all day!

Ryan Driller and Aaliyah Love have a very nice scene together and I’ve just got to say Aaliyah is one of my favorite performers to watch. She always nails her character and watching her have sex is just so appealing. It really is her infectious smile, cute giggle and the way she sometimes feigns embarrassment after achieving orgasm that gets me. She also just looks so good in spoon. It is my favorite position to watch her get fucked in, I think because the way she trims her bush makes her pussy look so good from that angle. Either way, it’s great, as is the way Driller never takes his eyes off her face as she’s riding him into orgasmic oblivion.

Ryan and Laura have an emotionally charged scene that culminates their journey as a couple and I have to say I really loved it … the way Whitney grinded her pussy against Ryan’s cock through his clothes, the way Ryan couldn’t stop sucking Whitney’s tits as he wrapped her in his embrace and the way Whitney cradled Ryan’s head lovingly as she succumbed to the excitement of being his sexual secret. It all fit the narrative of the story and it was all visually pleasing.

This movie was interesting, because it flipped the cheater victim trope on its head. Mike Quasar and Shawn Alff present a story that looks at this all too familiar subject matter in porn from a fresh perspective and I always appreciate that. Sarah Vandella really elevated her game with this movie in my opinion and she stands as the biggest and most pleasant surprise here. All the ladies look fantastic and if you’re a fan of any of them, you should absolutely check this one out. I watched this movie on Wicked.com, so I was not able to view any of the extra features.