John Leslie, couples director?

FM10 for the most part just doesn't have that immensely strokable nasty edge that has marked the vast majority of this standard-setting, multiple award-winning director's huge body of work. As heretical as it sounds, much of the tape seems a bit, well, tame, almost as if Leslie has been resting on his well-deserved laurels.

Still, what might not get Leslie's core fan base - single males - off, should prove quite thrilling to those couples who aren't necessarily wed to plot-oriented porn. And why not? FM10 is beautifully shot, featuring mostly gorgeous women and men copulating against the backdrop of luxurious upscale locales. And unlike the edgiest porn out there these days, Leslie's tape doesn't demean the females.

The vid's hottest moments come in scene two, a high energy inter-racial fourway highlighted by some of the most intense anal agony every captured on tape as Ryan somehow manages to take big - really big - Lexington Steele all the way up her rump. Featuring her all-too-real cries of "God damn" and "Holy shit," this scene is the one that will most satisfy solo male strokers.

The tape's four remaining scenes - two threeways and two couplings - while mid-tempo horny and easy enough on the eyes, simply aren't especially inspired and rarely reach flat-out fever pitches. Even so, they should most definitely put the itch in the crotches of the real-life couples viewing them.