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The Four {4 Disc Set}

The Four {4 Disc Set}

Released Jan 24th, 2012
Running Time 200 Min.
Director Michael Ninn
Company Ninn Worx
Distribution Company Adam & Eve Pictures
DVD Extras Dolby Digital, Interviews, Still Gallery(ies), Trailer(s), Widescreen
Cast Marco Banderas, Jana Jordan, Charles Dera, Reno, Nikki Kane, Maya Gates, Veronica Jett, Renee Perez, Alexis Love, Cassidey, Amber Rayne, Jennifer Dark, Brea Bennett, Tristan Kingsley
Critical Rating AAAAA
Genre Feature

Rating

Synopsis

Subject to change without notice A Michael Ninn ProjectMichael Ninn renders the power and the passion of the feminine heart in a fantasy battle of four women sworn to revenge following the desiccation of the Spartans after The Battle of Thermopylae in ancient Greece.It is 480 BC and the 300 elite soldiers of Leonidas have been destroyed by the Persian army. As the Grecian forces invade Sparta, four surviving Spartan widows of the 300 swear revenge for their husbands and unite to assassinate Persian God-King Xerxes.The Oracle, unable to stop the impending demise of Greece, grants each of these four women the strength, power and courage of the 300 brave warriors who died in battle, allowing these few brave souls to strike a final blow in the name of their lovers and their land.Bringing Michael Ninn`s ode to the beauty and strength of woman to the adult audience with a fantastical movie enhanced with the Ninn Worx team`s unparalleled imagery to create an epic of sex and revenge, starring the most beautiful women in adult entertainment. Ninn Worx contract girls Brea Bennett, Cassidey, Nikki Kane and Renee Perez portray the woman warriors vowed to avenge their men and their nation.Michael Ninn and the award winning Ninn Worx crew bring this high-end production to life with the latest in modern cinematic technology, employing green screen, stop action photography, computer generated imagery and lush special effects. With The Four Michael Ninn and the award winingNinn Worx crew bring audiences visual impact and breadth of cinematic scope that overshadows anything ever seen in the Adult Industry before.

Reviews

Watching a mainstream epic from the '50s or '60s, the viewer's initial reaction is, "They don't make 'em like that any more." In the case of The Four, they never made 'em like this—and considering the trouble the production had getting from the soundstage to the home video player, they may never make one like this again.

The titular Four (Brea Bennett, Renee Perez, Nikki Kane, Cassidey) are women of Sparta avenging the death of their king after the battle of Thermopylae familiar from the mainstream film 300. Queen Gorgo (Brea Bennett), mourning her husband King Leonidas (Charles Dera), flashes back to better, horizontal times with him before bargaining with a shaman for the powers of a warrior for all four—a service for which the shaman takes a comely blonde servant as payment.

The sex scenes waver between stylized and realistic, with soft focus giving way to tight close-ups and contemporary-sounding groans and squeals. Sometimes the scenes are back-to-back, like when three harem girls take each other on as a prologue to Alexis Love's set-to with Xerxes—Marco Banderas, a sash tied around his hips hiding his contemporary tattoo.

Interspersed with the sex scenes are sequences of dramatic exposition, including Brea Bennett vowing her revenge and imagining how sweet victory will taste, and Xerxes defiling his high priestess to punish her for failing to stop the Four.

As the Four get ready to attack Xerxes, the Queen leaves Plataea (Nikki Kane) behind to watch Xerxes' death from afar and go back to Sparta, passing along the story to her yet-unborn children. Approaching Xerxes' palace through a wilderness, Queen Gorgo meets the high priestess, who tells the Queen of a secret passage to Xerxes' chambers. As the Three avenge Sparta by killing Xerxes, Plataea sees herself with King Leonidas, leading to a triumphant coda as their son represents a reborn Sparta.

The moodlit, stylish photography and close-up scale takes the "intimate epic" approach familiar from cable TV's Spartacus series arcs. The lavish production values, original music and eye-catching editing work with stentorian scene-setting narration and introductory chapter titles build layers of depth.

A milestone production.



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