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Miss Ballista

Reviewed by Ralphus


When I heard that ZFX was introducing a new comic book- style action heroine, Miss Ballista, I was wondering how far from the norm the company would stray away from their roots, that being the best bondage/torture producer working in the U.S. today. Lisa Kinkaid as a gun-toting superheroine? This is the same Lisa Kinkaid who has played some of ZFX's best bound victims; I wasn't sure I wanted to see her as some sort of dominant crimefighting machine. My fears were unfounded. I'm happy to report that in spite of the comic book theme, Miss Ballista is esentially more of what we have to come to expect from ZFX, filled with bondage, torture and other cool things, wrapped around an entertaining story.

Director Rick Masters starts off the video with a brief setup to his tale, as Lisa informs us that she developed a fascination for pornography by sneaking into her brother's room while he was away at college, and starts her own website designed to expose the dirty underbelly of the porn industry. Setting off on her own to investigate a lead, she infiltrates an underground porno ring and starts taking pictures, when she happens upon a nude young woman (the ever-cute redhead Bridgitte Bayonne) gagged and tied to a bed, alone, but with a camera recording her struggles as she writhes on the bed. Lisa rescues her from her bonds and brings her back to the house. Interviewing her, she learns that Bridgette was abducted off the street a week ago, and was taken to the lair of Pornogra, a crazy masked woman who ordered her men to rape her on camera for black market videos.

Out to avenge the loss of their stolen sex slave, two men break into Lisa's house and attack her from behind, quickly ballgagging her and cuffing her hands, and do the same with Bridgette, roughly leading them upstairs to the bedroom. In the first of many hot scenes, the girls are stripped, slapped and fondled by the two men, and some of the threatening dialogue is great. Bending Lisa over to expose her pussy, one of the men gloats, "Yeah, we've got something that will fit that just fine!". Unfortunately, this is the one time when it's just talk. A hoped-for rape scene never occurs, although the setup was perfect. Instead, the men enact their revenge by tying the girls up to the bed, Bridgette tied standing across the bedframe, while Lisa is stretched out spreadeagled across the matress. While Bridgette helplessly watches, Lisa is given clothespin torture to her tits and pussy, then is electrically shocked with a stun gun to her all her private parts. In spite of the ever-persistant problem of this particular illusion being obviously faked (you can see that the stun gun is never turned on when applied to the body), Lisa and director Rick pull off the scene beautifully, Lisa with her convincing acting, and Rick with his tight camerawork and editing. In order to get Lisa to talk, one of the men tightens a belt around poor Bridgette's throat and chokes her to near-unconsciousness until Lisa reveals where the incriminating film from her camera is hidden.

The men go downstairs to retrieve the film, then Masters, in a cameo as Lisa's brother, finds the two bound girls and is shot in the head before he can do anything. The men hustle Bridgette back to Pornogra's lair, leaving Lisa still bound to the bed with her dead brother's body laying over top of her.

One week later, out to avenge her brother's death, Lisa turns to his favorite comic book, Ballista, and decides the way to go is to transform herself into this creation, complete with costume, gold mask and gold machine gun. Taking off again to the building where she found Bridgette, this time she is armed, and with payback on her mind.

It is here that we meet Pornogra, played by veteran ZFX performer Penelope Pace, as a freaky but sexy villianous. After a needlessly prolonged catfight sequence, Lisa is captured and Penelope goes to work on her now helpless prey, stripping her and ballgagging her, and eventually hanging her up by her wrists with her legs spread wide in midair. She slaps and fondles Lisa's body and later adds to her discomfort by adding clothespins on her tits and pussy. Penelope sits down and admires the view, masturbating and telling Lisa, "You make a great inspiration." I thought so, too! Lisa looks incredibly hot hanging up there.

This is followed up by one of ZFX's typically intense whipping sequences, then Penelope wields a strap-on dildo and lets Lisa have it over and over up the ass, simulated, of course, but still nice.

The next scene is something relatively different for ZFX, as Penelope forces a bound and naked Lisa to eat her food off a bowl on the floor. It may be new for ZFX, but I've seen this sort of degrading scene many times in Japanese bondage tapes. And ironically, what is it that Lisa is given to eat but rice from a carry-out restaurant! I guess if you're going to be inspired, you might as well be inspired by the guys who make the best bondage films in the world! :o)

Next, Penelope comes up with a nasty new torture, as Lisa is bound face down on an adjustable table, with her ass up, and her mouth filled with a special gag with an opening in the center. She forces a tube into her ass and lets an enema flow inside of her. This might have been simulated, but looks real, as there are several times when we see water flowing from the tube in her rectum. "Do we feel full now?", she asks with a laugh, and then corks the enema inside of her with a dildo, finishing off by taping it into place. Lisa is then left alone to suffer for an hour.

When Penelope returns, she adjusts Lisa's bondage table to an upright position, and we discover why her gag has a hole in it. "Since we fed you, I think it's time we gave you something to drink!", she tells Lisa, and with a funnel she pours the contents of two bottles of water down her throat, as Lisa coughs and sputters. Two bottles of water on top of an enema! What an evil person! :o) Lisa passes out, and Penelope walks off and leaves her there.

The final scene has Lisa managing an escape and turning the tables on her foe, leaving Penelope hogtied and ballgagged, squirming on the floor. The ending promises a return of Ballista.

This is a very good video, with a feature-length running time and lots of inventive scenes. The acting is uniformly excellent, particularly Penelope, who performs her dominant role with great relish, and of course Lisa, who makes the whole tape work by playing a convincing victim. With so many scenes, there should be something here for everyone.


My Grade: B+

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