One Last Deal dropped on streaming today through Sky Cinema and NOW, putting Danny Dyer in the cramped center of a thriller that never leaves the office where his character spends 88 minutes trying to close the biggest deal of his life. Dyer plays Jimmy Banks, a football manager who will do anything to secure a major agreement for his client, and he is the only person seen on screen.
The setup is bare-bones, but that is the point. Other actors only appear through voices on the phone, turning the film into a pressure-cooker conversation piece rather than a conventional drama, and the entire story plays out in one office. That self-imposed limit has not stopped it from landing attention: Film Ireland Magazine called it an impressive screenwriting debut for Peter Howlett, praising the razor sharp dialogue and its unfortunately quite timely themes.
There is a reason the film is being watched closely even without a theatrical run behind it. At the time of writing, One Last Deal was available via Sky Cinema and with the Cinema subscription on NOW, but it did not appear to be available to buy or rent digitally. Amazon had a DVD and Blu-ray product page up with a placeholder release date, suggesting a longer rollout was still taking shape.
The reception so far has been split. The Daily Express said the story will keep you hooked even if you do not like football, while Mark Kermode called it overwrought and said it felt longer than its 88 minutes, even as he commended the production and set design. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film had nine critic reviews and an 89% positive rating, but not enough for a Tomatometer score.
That matters because Dyer is suddenly everywhere again. A few months before One Last Deal arrived, he appeared in The Dyers' Caravan Park, and at the time of writing he also had two weekly TV shows in motion: Rivals on Disney+, which was releasing new episodes on Fridays, and Nobody's Fool on ITV, due to premiere tonight at 9pm on ITV1 with Dyer and Emily Atack hosting. For now, One Last Deal is a small, tightly boxed film with a simple premise and a blunt edge: Jimmy Banks keeps pushing because the deal is the only thing that matters, and the movie asks the audience to stay in the room until he either gets it or loses everything trying.
