Lusty carpenters with raging hormones is a good premise to start out with. This theme, alone, may be enough to keep this video selling. Award-winning director Sam Abdul has dispensed with his usual penchant for storytelling, in favor of making an almost nonstop sexual romp. A gay answer to Sliver, the simple plot has a mysterious voyeur with cameras hooked up to see how workers spend their "coffee breaks". Each of the four pairings is set up so that the topman's performance is hot enough to carry their scene. The bottoms generally hide their meat from the camera, fluffing stiffies at the end in order to cum. Hung Sean Davis' scene is especially hot as he works on the exceptional Karl Redford, the only bottom who gets hard enough to be sucked. Other exceptions to the rule make matters worse- as in a topman (Matt Gunther) who has trouble keeping it up, and bottom Curt Camden, who never cums, he stays tucked and never shows us the family jewels.

This chronic one-sided sex usually works best in the context of a domination fantasy, which this is not. Otherwise it is much better to see both participants aroused by what they are doing, be it giving or taking. Quality videography, good pacing and tight editing bring Men With Tools up a notch.