Sidnee Coxx: Up Close and Personal

Vivid

Genre: Compilation

Director: varied

Cast: Sindee Coxx, Asia Carrera, Brittany Andrews, Charlie, Chelsea, Cheyenne Silver, Chloe, Janine, Jill Kelly, Kira Kener, Kobe Tai, Lexus, Madelyn Knight, Nina Hartley, Raylene, Rebecca Bardoux, Taylor Hayes, Tia Bella, Steven St. Croix, Tony Tedeschi, Jon Dough, Vince Voyeur, Bobby Vitale, Marc Wallice, Nick East

Length: 131.5 minutes

Date of Production: 5/23/02 (compilation itself)

Extra's: multiangle BJ with Stevie, photogallery, 4 trailers, behind the scenes: Surrender Chelsea, commercials, 2 unrelated bonus scenes, double sided dvd cover

Audio/Video Quality: A few of the 12 scenes looked very good but most suffered from all kinds of problems like lighting, grain, pixels, and color variances. The audio was usually weak with blaring music the norm.

Body of Review: Sindee Coxx is best known as a Vivid performer with blonde hair, a tattoo on her shoulder and someone who's still performing well into her 30's. It yet another compilation, Sindee takes on many of the porn world's most notable characters in scenes that range from the jail house and as a nurse to screwing the milkman. Okay, it's porn we're talking about and nobody expects much from a compilation, right?

In this set of 12 scenes, I thought 3 were worth watching more than once: The lusty Asia scene, the pretty good Bobby scene, and the jail scene at the end which was too short but very warm. Most of the rest of the scenes weren't terrible but all had major deficiencies that rendered them poor for stroke material. Like all such compilations, your value is going to depend primarily on how much you like the star. Sindee, when airbrushed and otherwise make up by experts, was pretty good looking back in her prime but I have yet to hear anyone suggest she was a ball of fire or major scene stealer. I've probably seen her in compilations more than actual movies although I think she's been in 400 or so movies. Vivid's compilations are sometimes good but in this case, I doubt they'll win any awards. I could provide more detail but the bottomline is that huge fans won't care since they'll buy it anyway and those who aren't fans will not likely become fans after viewing this dvd.

Summary: The technical flaws of this one lowered it's value enough for me to suggest skipping it unless you're a big fan of Ms. Coxx. Even then, and only if you've avoided her other Vivid dvd's, I'd tell you to check it out as a rental since there's no unique material to this one and the aforementioned picture/sound problems were bothersome. On an upbeat note, the dvd cover made her look fabulous as it did the other performers so fans may want to score a copy of the cover if not the actual compilation itself. I hope Vivid decides to focus future efforts a bit more in order to make us consumers happy and part of their effort should be to go back to basics and provide a good picture with good sound.