Well, I wasn't planning on watching this movie but it came on the tube after another movie I had was watching (Something Wild) and I decided to watch it rather than fill the dishwasher.The first thing that should have told me that filling the dishwasher would have provided me with more enjoyment was the music.
Big deal is a comedy drama in the guise of Only fools and horses and Minder about a London based professional gambler . Ray Brooks is Robbie Box and plays the main character in cheeky chappy mode making him almost impossible to dislike.
Just watching this for the first time since the 80s (when I loved it). If you like Lovejoy, Minder and Bergerac, you will love this.
I used to really like 'Big Deal' when I was about 10 but hadn't seen it for 20 odd years so was pleasantly surprised with the DVD release of the first series. I thought that like much 80s TV it probably would seem slow and dated but it's held up rather well.
Big Deal was a great TV series about a professional gambler called Robbie Box. It was well acted and showed the highs and lows of trying to scratch a living this way.
Jeff Wincott, fine Canadian actor, has earned a loyal following, principally for martial arts skills as depicted in numerous "action" films, but upon occasion throughout his career he has been called upon to demonstrate native talent other than that of his primary athletic disposition towards belting foes about, as in this instance for a less than entertaining attempt at comedy. In a shoddily composed farce, Wincott plays as Ted Powers, a presumptuous entrepreneur whose efforts to hawk 10,000 automatized ashtrays are squelched when his buyer dies, spurring Ted to seek the services of a particularly unsavoury loan shark, Leo Schnyder (Géza Kovács).
This corny, anachronistic, measly excuse for a film has problems that only begin with the erratic cinematography and atrocious, hyper-literal musical score. Healy's only feature as director stretches the farce-of-misunderstanding to its limit, relying on speed and clutter to distract us from some extremely questionable turns of logic.
Robbie Box is a heavy gambler, whose luck goes from the highs to the lowest depths. His girlfriend, Jan and daughter Debby stick by him for much of the way, but eventually leave for Australia only to come back.
Once, movie director Fischer gave us precious little gems like 'Brandnacht'. So where's the problem nowadays?
