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The Isle of Men
Rating: 4 Stars
Sarava Productions. Produced, photographed, and directed by Kristen Bjorn. Edited by Adam Rom. Music by Matthew Locke. Starring Juan Jimenez, Lazaro Carrera, Daniel Rivero, Arpad Miklos, Mark Anthony, Ivan Andros, Lucas Magalhaes, Tony Lazzari, Alexandro Aris, Christopher Collins, Eric Leneau, Mario De Lazarius, Jose Luis Vazquez, Luis Clemente, Pietro Rosselli, Antonio Armani, Dan Dirk, and Ivan Cseka.
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In The Isle of Men, his new fever dream of the Caribbean, director Kristen Bjorn revisits terrain he explored more than a decade ago in Island Fever and Caribbean Beat, and finds new life there. Using footage shot in Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and Jamaica, he pulls together a composite island paradise that seems supercharged with available sex. The 18-man cast, one of Bjorn's best mixes of blue-ribbon, multi-national, muscular demigods, is predominantly Latino, with superb contributions from Juan Jimenez, Lazaro Carrera, Jose Luis Vazquez, Luis Clemente, and others. But there are stellar performances by non-Latin models as well, especially Hungarian Arpad Miklos and American Mark Anthony. These sexual athletes have a ferocious dynamism even in moments when they seem too carefully posed.

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Bjorn, whose last release, Wet Dreams, appeared over two years ago, is aided by a slightly different production team-- filling in for longtime assistant Barry Gollop, now a director in his own right, are cast members Miklos and Christopher Collins. The sex, which encompasses nearly 60 cumshots and sometimes pushes the safety envelope, is consistently astonishing. Among the seven white-hot, visually exquisite sequences (seen to best advantage in the uncut mail-order edition), standouts include a scene where camera-toting tourist Anthony is cruised on the street and lured to an apartment by a pair of locals, and the finale, in which Miklos invites three ship's officers in white uniforms up to his lair. Gay adult video has never been better than Kristen Bjorn's best work. In The Isle of Men, he's near his peak.