When you've directed as much stellar product as Rocco Siffredi has, it must be a challenge to constantly top yourself.

The Madman apparently wasn't up to it in his True Anal Stories 14, which, while containing its share of strokable moments and populated by attractive, but for the most part not drop-dead gorgeous gash, simply can't compare to the flat-out scalding strokability of his best work.

With nary a face slap or a neck choke, the not-particularly-inspired RTAS14 feels more like Rocco-light. Still, even half-baked Siffredi is superior to much of what's out there, and combined with his immense popularity, makes this tape very stockable indeed.

The opening fiveway is the most routine of the vid's three scenes and while never really catching fire, does feature some intense anal agony, a terrific threeway position this reviewer's never seen before and a great face-stuffed-with-stiffie closing shot.

Scene two's sevenway (sans Rocco) is hotter and briefly - but only briefly - flirts with full-on boil status thanks to the moderately loud cacophony of female moaning as their heinies get hammered and their faces get splattered, sometimes all in the same frame.

Hotter still is the closer, in which Rocco methodically stuffs the asses and - A2M-style - mouths of three of the tape's best-looking bitches, one after the other, like some sort of XXX-rated assembly line worker. While the scene has the least amount of bodies, it has the most amount of heat (thanks in part to some exceptionally hot-wired moaning), which says something about the power of concentration. Even so, it falls somewhat short of all-out animalistic wantonness.