The sport agent unwittingly about to make his One Last Deal ….
BAFTA winner Danny Dyer, no, we never expected to be writing that either, stars as Jimmy Banksman old school sports agent whose client is a footballer currently in court awaiting the verdict of a sexual assault case. Quietly confident that his client will be found not guilty Jimmy is already putting together a deal with a club that will make his man rich and consequently earn him a very healthy percentage. But what follows could make this his One Last Deal.
What that One Last Deal involves ….
Alone in his office Jimmy is phone bashing various contacts and using the tricks he’s learned over the years to bump up the offers all the time confident that the verdict will be in his client’s favour. Those contacts include self interested sports insiders, a hooky lawyer, a scoop hungry journalist, a bent cop and his own estranged daughter. It’s a hive of villainy all dealt with by Jimmy in his usual potty mouthed amoral way that he’s lived his life and led his business.
But it soon goes awry when he finds himself being blackmailed that will scupper the deal, collapse his reputation, close his agency, bankrupt him and leave him open to criminal investigation. But who is that person on the end of the phone and sending him incriminating audio clips?
Danny Dyer….
The entire films revolves around Dyer’s awful agent and for the first two acts it’s the archetypal performance as his character sloshes down a bottle of whisky hurls abuse down the phone and gets ever more aggressive and desperate as the plot twists exacerbate his situation. But it’s the final act that sees some sort of character arc emerge that humanizes him beyond the monster we’ve watched for the previous hour or so.
There’s a nice bit of set design and the is nicely lit although as the story takes place over the course of a day the ‘sunlight’ through the windows never seems to move. Written by Peter Howlett and directed by Brendan Muldowney this is essentially a single hander film that, as nicely shot as it is, is essentially a filmed stage play and really one for Danny Dyer’s hardcore fans.
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Here’s the One Last Deal trailer….
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