For a scripted slugging match, this video has a lot going for it. The office attire is really hot, with JC Marie and Tylene in particular wearing scandalously sexy "business outfits" that barely contain their bountiful bods, as if tempting Diana to check out what's underneath and giving her cause for frustration when her advances are denied. Over the course of the video, most of the clothes come off, but it's not very common to see slugging action in business attire, so it was interesting to watch the ladies brawling in their office best even before more skin was bared. The DT set in which the video was shot also passes very nicely for an interview room in a corporate setting.
All three performers are credible sluggers and generally get really into their roles and sell the action well, as I think they did here. There was sufficient variety in the beatdown tactics to keep things from getting too monotonous, but enough focus was spent on punching to legitimately call this a slugging match. And the fact that it was a 3-girl script also kept the pacing lively, as things progressed smoothly from a 1-on-1 beatdown of JC Marie to a 1-on-1 beatdown of Tylene Buck to a 2-on-1 beatdown of Diana Knight.
But in spite of all this going for it, I ultimately would characterize this match as good, but not quite great (as it easily could have and should have been). The main reason the video missed a higher mark is something I've spoken of before--bad camera angles. As you can see in the images above and below, there is a heavy focus on punching against the wall in the 1-on-1 beatdown segments, but the spot chosen for the wall punching forced the camera to shoot primarily from Diana's left side while she pounded her upright victims. However, Diana mostly punches with her right hand (presumably because that's her dominant hand), and when you try to shoot right-handed punching from the puncher's left side, the puncher's body predictably spends a lot of time blocking the camera's view of the victim. So instead of seeing Diana's fist plowing into JC Marie's and Tylene's midsections, you mostly just see Diana's back at the moment of impact. As a result, you are given the overall impression of solid gut slugs happening, but at the critical moments you are denied actually seeing the punches land.
Others may feel differently, but to me, watching a puncher's back is not nearly so interesting as watching the victim's belly actually receiving the fist. So it's frustrating to have what appears to be great slugging action unfolding on the screen, but to have the camera stuck in a vantage point that robs the viewer of the most important visuals.
That said, what saves the video from an even lower mark ("good" is still, well, good!) is the generally great performers and the fact that not ALL the punching is against the wall, so there are at least some sequences where you do get to see the fists hitting home, primarily in the 2-on-1 segment where Diana is on the receiving end.
My favorite sequence is when the blonds have Diana pinned on the floor with her arms stretched up over her head, and JC Marie straddles Diana and delivers some truly first-class punches straight down into Diana's open gut. Being a scripted match, the punches are of course fake, but JC Marie is a master in the art of credible pulled punches. JC Marie has a great, full-body wind-up as she cocks her fist back, and she launches her fist forward with vicious speed, carrying the motion all the way through to the point of impact. JC Marie's slugging technique is picture-perfect, which makes for some great action when she has Diana on her back and the camera is actually viewing from a good angle to see the full punch sequence from start to finish.
It's in this same segment that JC Marie throws pretty much the only breast punches of the match--she does this with both fists at once, which is not so much my thing, but that's normally because the puncher just looks awkward and unconvincing trying to depict a credible double-punch when she often hasn't even mastered a credible single-punch. But JC Marie is so good that she can even punch convincingly with both fists at once, and it works. JC Marie also does a great job of lavishly grinding her fists around in Diana's bosoms at the end of her punches to add insult to the injury. JC Marie further ratchets up the heat by pausing to rub her sculpted torso up and down Diana's in between punches, as if teasing Diana with the same sex appeal that got Diana's juices flowing in the first place, but now instead of getting JC Marie's hot body, Diana is only getting the blond's cruel fists. The sexy teasing is a nice little psychological twist to the retribution beatdown.
JC Marie is definitely near the very top of my personal list of primo punchers, and I would give an A+ to her sequence pounding Diana on the floor in this video. It's just too bad the rest of the video wasn't more of the same. This one excellent sequence with JC Marie on top definitely helps make the overall video worthwhile, but despite the superlative performance from JC Marie and solid work from both of the other ladies as well, the bad camera angles for so much of the action holds the video back and ultimately leaves it in the category of "almost great, but instead just good." On the whole, though, I do think most fans of scripted slugging would enjoy this video, and for those who don't actually need to see the punch landing for full enjoyment, they might just love it. So check it out!
Grade: B
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