really poorly made
While nobody expects a skin flick to have a plot or emmy award winning acting, this movie failed to meet my already low expectations.

I had 2 issues with this movie.
1. The music: the sound track is more fitting for an info-mercial than for an erotic movie. I think I heard the same music in the ad for the DR Field and Brush mower.
2. The acting...I expected the in-between acting to be bad- everyone does. But the acting when they're pretending to have sex was simply sub-par. They didn't look as they were even trying to be convincing. Maybe I'm just a hard critic, or maybe these people are simply not good at sex. Find a different title if you're looking for anything halfway decent.

one of the best of its kind
"Virtual Encounters" is one of the better erotic soft-core DVDs I've seen. There are lots of crummy ones out there, but this one does NOT disappoint. True, there's not a lot of story to it beyond a girl getting caught up in erotic virtual reality scenes, but since most of the DVD consists of those scenes, how much story could you have? You've gotta make your choice. If I counted correctly, there are 8 boy-girl scenes, 2 girl-girl, and 1 boy-girl-girl. Anyone who complains about the actors in this must live at the Playboy Mansion, because to me they all look great and are very sexy. Two of my favorite scenes are with the bodacious Taylor St. Claire, one with her as a sizzling stripper who brings a guy from the audience onto the stage with her, and in the other, she's dominating another woman in a dungeon in a manner too hot to describe here. Other big name contributors are Jacqueline Lovell and Jill Kelly. Overall, the disc gets pretty close to x-rated, and to avoid that a few parts of scenes are done in a rather fake looking manner. For example, there's full frontal nudity of the women, but they had to compromise realism a little in order not to show men's privates and to avoid an x-rating. Other than that, they sure don't hold back much. The disc also has a nice extra with previews of 4 other Surrender Cinema DVDs. Overall, "Virtual Encounters" is very impressively acted and filmed, and there are quite many really HOT scenes in here. Especially at the very moderate price, this one is a winner!

"Virginal" Encounters might be a better title [:-(
All the promos made me think that this would be a really great Sci-Fi story with beautiful babes all over the place. Well, there WERE some beautiful babes but the anticipated provocative poses by sexy ladies, never materialized. Has the art of "posing" been lost by modern girls? Maybe all the good directors have retired or died! What a pity...Why, I couldn't even muster a stiff upper lip as I played this DVD through to the end.
In spite of my being a certifiable "dirty old man". [:-)

Virtually...
Why do we need the canned music for each sex scene? These type of movies are so much more erotic with some actual noise from the participants. Also, some of the boobs in this movie are monstruously unappealing. They are sooo fake it is such a turn off. Give me some perky 'A' cups over huge fake 'D' cups anyday.

I'll give this movie two stars, because some of the scenes had potential...

Another winner from Surrender Cinema.
One of Surrender's good, early efforts. This is from the same director as Femalien and the two films are pretty comparable in quality. There are several sex scenes all tied around the concept of the main character's trip to a "virtual reality" studio. If the technology shown really existed, the company's profits would exceed those of GM, IBM, Coca Cola and Exxon-Mobil combined. :)

A couple of real highlights in the film were the strip club scene and the wet lesbian/three way. But all of the scenes were good.

Given the low price and high quality of the video, this is an easy recommendation.