Desperate plight of spiv sports agent in high stakes meltdown

Desperate plight of spiv sports agent in high stakes meltdown Danny Dyer. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Soccer Aid for UNICEF

If Ray Winstone is the poor man’s Robert De Niro, Danny Dyer is the poor man’s Winstone. But what a performance he gives in The Last Deal (18). It isn’t so much a film as a one-act play with the camera turned on. Brendan Muldowney’s fluid direction makes us forget that. Dyer is Jimmy Banks,…

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