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Good As Gold
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by John Rutherford. Directed by Kristopher Weston. Videography by Todd Montgomery and Max Phillips. Edited by Max Phillips and D.C. Wheeler. Music by E.M. Diaz. Starring Matthew Rush, Joe Foster, Josh Weston, Brendan Falke, Tommy Brandt, Derek Cameron, Jake Andrews, Jason Tyler, Jack Ryan, Cameron Fox, Nino Bacci, Paul Johnson, Brendan Austin, Steve Hogan, and Dean Tyler.
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This 70-minute mock documentary is built around Falcon muscle god Matthew Rush's real-life participation in the Physique Competition at the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney, Australia. Playing himself, Rush is at his most likable. In talking-head interviews, he seems good-natured and unaffected; he proves that his massive musculature is capped by a brain. In his three sex scenes, he's a gently assertive top. His fiery session with American model Jake Andrews

begins on a hotel balcony over-

looking Sydney and continues in Andrews's room, where open curtains offer views of traffic passing on the streets below. He connects with Australian couple Brendan Austin and Steve Hogan on a beach, and with Aussie mate Joe Foster on and around a cranberry-red Jeep Wrangler parked in the countryside.

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Unfortunately, when this video strays from Matthew Rush, it feels padded and unfocused. Dean Tyler has a rudimentary public solo in a bar. When Foster attends an after-hours orgy, the revelers seem to be entirely American. Some of Falcon's best models-- Josh Weston, Cameron Fox, Nino Bacci, Paul Johnson, and others-- are wasted in this raggedly assembled episode (which pretends to be set in a Sydney back room, but was probably shot in the US). Rush's sequences, which include footage of the physique demonstration that won him a Bronze Medal (we aren't told who got the Gold at Gay Games VI), nevertheless make Good As Gold essential viewing for his fans.