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A orgy in a dance club men's room with Steve O'Donnell, Adam Rom, Max Grand, and Matt Bradshaw sounds like sexual nirvana, and Bustin' Loose provides a richly whory setting for its first-episode foursome: chrome, white tile, red enamel, mirrored walls, a fish tank on a pedestal over a round white wash basin. Unfortunately, the sex isn't thought through in terms of the situation set up-- an encounter between undercover cops and drug dealers-- and the scene, which ends weirdly with cop fucking cop and dealer fucking dealer just prior to a bust, is full of confusing jump cuts and isolation shots.

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Director Chip Daniels, who does love sex, handles the next sequence somewhat better. Collegiate twinkie John Ross, speeding down a dark country road in his mother's car, is pulled over by Sheriff Bud Stetson, who wears reflective sunglasses at night and carries a riding crop. After submitting to a roadside body search, Ross is transported to a barn in the middle of nowhere, ordered to strip, cuffed to a door latch, lashed with a belt, and made to admit parts of the sheriff's anatomy into various apertures.

Then he's taken to a lockup arrangement reminiscent of the secret prison in the sleaze classic House of Whipcord. (By comparison, the cardboard correctional facility in Powertool 2 looks neo-realist.) Fellow miscreants Adam Rom and Dave Davidson (later joined by Steve Pierce and Sean Dickson), are already sitting there in regulation striped pajamas, ripe for abuse by renegade cop Doug Forbes and, more attentively, by jailer Peter Dixon. A demented cross between John Preston's Mr. Benson and your dotty Aunt Zelda, Dixon tries hard, but he's on camera far too long for someone who seems to have learned acting from 36 consecutive screenings of Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS. He does at least have the best line-- "It's fuckin' time for your cavity search!"-- directed at Steve Pierce, whose cavity gets quite a workout.

The video ends with everyone amblin'-- not bustin'-- loose in a poorly staged, perfunctory jailbreak. This is Volume 1 of a projected series, inspired by the success of the same production team's Hot Cops and Hot Cops 2. With a bit more imagination, invention and style, the series may avoid arrest.