Amiable though idiotic blaxploitation hardcore

Though far from anything like a masterpiece, BLACK HEAT has just enough goofy charm to get by as an acceptably pleasurable gay porn throwback.

After a great opening title sequence which has the credits listed next to a writhing, dancing male body to the theme from SHAFT, the threadbare plot finds drug dealer Leroy making the rounds to various customers and distributing a potent aphrodisiac instead of whatever the heck they'd ordered in the first place. 

After watching one pair of Leroy's customers tune in, get very turned on, and make sweet, sweet love, we join Leroy as he stops off at a roadside rest stop for some release. Encountering a studly Latino, Leroy's first held up at knife-point and forced to perform oral services, before the guy realizes they're both on the same page and they get down to the standard F&S.

Back home, Leroy's again held up (this time for his drug money), but manages to turn the tables on his captors with a little more of his product. Things finish out as is to be expected.

While stumbling into a fair amount of the pitfalls that plague cheaper "golden age" XXX entries (go-nowhere plot, lack of interest in characters or story), BLACK HEAT at least succeeds by being an amiably goofy attempt to hop on the blaxploitation bandwagon. From purloining that most famous of tracks by Isaac Hayes to Leroy's outrageously garish outfit, amply showcased in the film's plentiful motorcycle riding footage, the film is at the very least a fun and campy time capsule of its period. The sex scenes are acceptably well-shot and deliver the requisite action (typical of the dependable DeSimone), but only the mid-film rest-stop scene really rises above the strictly ordinary (and then not by much).

Undeniably dumb but at least dumb fun, BLACK HEAT really succeeds only due to the outlandishly low standards set by a lot of its competition. Nevertheless, a win's a win, and while you could definitely do much better, you can still do a lot, lot worse.

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