High Desert

When my copy of "High Desert" arrived, I imagined it was going to be a new favorite of mine. Its cast includes some of my favorite actors - Dean Phoenix and Marc Anthony, in particular - and the artwork made the film look damn promising! Sadly, I can't sit here and tell you that I was very happy with the film, which I would call mediocre at best. And a sloppy transfer to DVD certainly doesn't help matters.As the title suggests, all the action in this DVD takes place out in the desert. If you're a fan of sex in the great outdoors, there's a lot to appreciate in the film. But there were a lot of things that bothered me about the film. The first was the fact that the director seems to be big fan of the slow-motion feature on the editing machine. It was especially annoying because the sequences played in slow motion are generally the sequences that move too slow in the first place - namely the kissing and foreplay. I was also left a bit dissatisfied with the camera angles chosen and how they were spliced together. .......