This first installment in a planned trilogy of sci-fi fuck-flicks is noteworthy for its large, attractive cast; some excellent CGI and composited visual effects; and spaceship interiors that are surprisingly believable, in a B-movie kind of way.

Unfortunately, the inherently sill story of a joint U.S.-Russian space mission that’s jeopardized by the unexpected results of a secret experiment involving human sexuality in micro-gravity takes itself way, way too seriously for the level of videomaking talent on display here.  The result is an exceedingly talky, slow-moving plot, with a handful of so-so, poorly dubbed sex scenes and the occasional effects sequence plugged-in to liven up the show a bit.  Despite a reported budget of several hundred thousand dollars, Operation Sex Siege that is not.

The biggest disappointments, however, are 1) Advertised footage shot at Kenny Space Center in Florida and Johnson Space Center in Texas consists of stock film footage and a few quick exteriors of buildings, landscaping and animals; 2) the ballyhooed “zero-gravity” sex scene and pop shot, supposedly lensed in the belly of a NASA-type training jet is, in a word, bullshit (well-simulated, but bullshit nonetheless – do you guys honestly think that all we AVN critics do is watch porn, with no knowledge of the space program, or mainstream filmmaking, or the world at large?; and 3) the Private PR department, or whoever, for dreaming up this magnitude of falsehood and dishing it out to the industry during CES and through various media – including a pair of articles in this very magazine.  Shame on you.  You’re better than this.