Captured & Trained 2 contains all the elements of a classic, definitely-not-for-couples bondage video, but it just doesn't achieve greatness. Gutter-level aesthetic, esoteric torture implements, a chained-up blonde chick and a masked inquisitor who insists on being called "Commandant" and acts insane ought to add up to a big payoff, but the action that follows can't live up to the hype.

Plot concerns a torture session between a terrorist junta leader and a captured American girl-pilot. The dude's camo clothes, black-knit, full-face mask, and Middle Eastern accent are creepy (and topical), and the Mujahideen inquisitor applies clothepins, lashes and electrical torture wands with a real love-of-craft, but things never fully take off. Throughout her travails, Blondie doesn't seem to be taking the proceedings all that seriously. Her limits do not seem to be tested, and she even seems a little bored (no mean feat, considering she's being slapped around by a jabbering Middle Easterner).

Things promise to heat up when Commandant Damian throws his captive to the wolves - four pudgy guys in ski masks - for an orgy. Sadly, the vid fades out quick, conforming to the "no sex in a bondage tape" tenet.