Review

The #1 story in gay entertainment for 2003 was the departure of John Rutherford from Falcon Studios and his purchase of Colt Studios. Now this was news! Why? Because the man who turned the Falcon image into an icon was moving to a studio whose equally iconic ideal was its polar opposite.

Consider: The “Falcon Man” has only recently reached manhood. He’s in his mid-20s at the most, with a flawless swimmer’s build and a huge cock. The hair on his head is perfectly styled, and it’s virtually the only hair on his body. When he wears anything, it’s white Calvin Klein briefs, and he rarely shows much emotion during sex beyond the orgasmic groan. Think Tom Cruise and the cast of Top Gun. Yum!

The Colt man drips in testosterone and mega-masculinity. He can reach his 40s, if not more, with the heavily muscled body of a bodybuilder or WWF wrestler. His body hair is luxuriant, but his head is either a buzz cut or naturally bald. He takes off worn jockstraps or ripped cutoffs, and his sex is deliberate but intimate. Colt men know how to grin - or glower. Think Ah-nold and the cast of Predator. Hubba hubba!

The studios’ approach to filming sex differs, too. Falcon videos are gorgeous but they are incredibly graphic. You can count the veins of a Falcon cock as it plunges into a Falcon ass. Falcon also gets brazenly kinky; cocks aren’t the only things going into those asses. Falcon produces porn with a capital “P.” Colt is much more artistic - you can keep its magazines on the coffee table when your friends come over. No studio walks the line between porn and art better than Colt. The videos are more romantic, preferring to show the interaction between the men over the extreme closeup.

So everyone wondered what would happen when John Rutherford left the Falcon chicken coop to take over the Colt cattle ranch. Were Colt men going to have to start (shudder) shaving their assholes? Well, now we know. Rutherford’s released his first Colt title - and it’s cause for celebration.

This is a definitive Colt video, but it comes with the best that Falcon had to offer. The men are marvels of meaty masculinity, and they ride each other hard. The camerawork is voluptuous, but it gets in tight. Each scene has its own character, and each will have you shooting loads again and again. It will take you days to get through it all. When they called it Reload, they weren’t kidding!

To assure diehard Colt fans, Rutherford does something that’s simply brilliant - he opens each scene with a classic Colt image of the past that morphs into the present with the new models in the same pose. Ironically, this works least well in the opening scene, which may be the video’s best. The shot is of two of Colt’s “biggest” early stars - the mountainous Bruno and Toby. It fades to Alex LeMonde and Marcus Iron, two very hot men but not nearly as ripped or as hairy.

But you forget all that the instant they begin what is some of the best foreplay ever seen in a gay porn. GayVN needs to create a “Best Kiss” Award just for these guys. As LeMonde and Iron lock lips, they also stroke each other’s meat with genuine intensity. They then take turns kneeling down and sucking each other’s considerable cocks down to the roots. They lick and finger each other’s asses with gusto (and spit) - a video first for LeMonde, who has never let anything go up his ass before. Eventually, Alex lies back so Marcus Iron can sit down on Alex’s “iron.” It’s a lavish fuck that lasts through several positions. The camera periodically moves in for some tight penetration shots, but prefers to step back and capture the passion rather than the plumbing. And passion it is - the two men can’t get enough of each other, as they stare into each other’s eyes, murmur encouraging words and smile, smile, smile. It is gay sex at its most enticing and most intimate.

Fans of Colt bodybuilders will rejoice over the next scene that begins with an original drawing of three naked musclemen by Rip Colt. It morphs into three living behemoths: long-haired blond Trey Rexx is on his back on a deck chair; darkman Jake Gianelli is sucking him off; and blond bombshell, new Colt exclusive and box cover model Tod Parker is fucking his face. Rexx pulls apart Parker’s marble cheeks to reveal a tight rosebud hiding in the brambles of ass-hair, and Gianelli dives right in with his tongue. The three men alternate positions (though Parker never actually sucks cock) before serving up the main course - the pummeling of Rexx’s ass doggie-style. First up is Gianelli who pile-drives his cock into Rexx’s hole. Parker “suits up” and takes Gianelli’s place, who stands behind the rookie, stroking his chest and sliding his cock between the blonde’s legs. The camera shoots from below, catching every thrust of both men into Rexx. Here the sex is much rougher than before, and it ends with all three shooting small but intense loads.

Nobody does solo scenes better than Colt - it’s their specialty, so naturally Rutherford includes one in his studio debut. And it’s mind-blowing. It starts with a photo of Chris Dickerson, one of Colt’s few African-American models of the past, and fades to a Colt African-American model of the future, Adam Dexter. This guy can’t be real! He has negative body fat, and a set of abs that cut deeper than the Grand Canyon. His jet-black skin is so thoroughly oiled that it glistens. His cock is long and curves dramatically to the right, and his low-slung balls could choke a horse. On top of this is a startlingly handsome face with a dazzling smile that could light up a blacked-out Times Square. He totally gets into the camera as it gets totally into him. It’s a solo scene that will leave you drenched.

Get ready to be blown away! Colt did have some porn pups, and one of the best was the hairy young Ray Dragon. The screen fills with a classic shot of Dragon c. 1991 - and then dissolves into Ray Dragon c. 2003. You try comparing yourself naked now to 12 years ago. Dragon has a lot of guts to do that, though some might say (including this reviewer) that Dragon looks better than ever!

Dragon leads a leisurely five-man Southern-California-style orgy that the rest of us can only dream about. The five men - Dragon, Iron, Rob Romoni, and newcomers Matt Colmar and Dave Angelo (so named for the giant wings tattooed on his back) - enjoy a relaxed round-robin and periodic daisy-chain of sucking and ass-licking. The action takes place by and in a pool - really in! The camera goes underwater for some amazing footage, beginning with Dragon deep-throating Iron. Romoni and Iron then wrap their legs around each other for a fantastic underwater flip-flop fuck - check out how their balls move in the water with each thrust. The best is when three men shoot their loads underwater: Iron’s cum gently dissolves into a cloud, while Romoni and Angelo’s jizm breaks up into tiny threads that dart about in a perverse aquatic ballet.

The final scene begins with another Colt drawing that turns into Chase Hunter and Lane Fuller, two of Rutherford’s favorite Falcon models. Here they get the Colt treatment: Hunter, who made his first video in 1993, bares his maturity as proudly as his enormous cock, and Fuller fans will be astonished to learn that the guy (no longer a boy) has hair on his chest and ass! They begin with some expert cock-sucking before moving to the pool for some old-fashioned kink - a series of garden-hose enemas administered by Hunter. Fuller shoots the water out his ass like some perverted fountain; several times he aims right at the camera and sprays all over the lens. Good clean fun, right? (Editor's note: The enema sequences can only be seen in the Director's Cut version.)

But this is all a prelude to the real action - a fuck for the record books. Hunter’s cock and Fuller’s ass were made for each other. Any other ass would shrink in fear at Hunter’s meat, while any other cock would get lost in Fuller’s deep ass-canal. Fuller takes Hunter from all angles, and the camera gets in close for all of them.

You can even see something that has never been seen before in a John Rutherford video: lube glistening on ass hair. Rutherford’s Falcon models didn’t have ass hair, but Rutherford’s Colt models sure do. This one moment embodies the achievement of Reload. Lube is used for a powerhouse fuck that Falcon perfected, but done with the style, grace and natural masculinity that symbolizes Colt.

Reload is a triumph for all involved, not the least including cameraman and longtime Rutherford collaborator Todd Montgomery. Wherever Rutherford will drive Colt next, it’s going to be one hell of a ride!
-Jameson Rodgers

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