| Deadly Bet (1992) Cast:Jeff Wincott, Steven Vincent Leigh,Charlene Tilton Wincott stars as a kickboxer/compulsive gambler who bets his fiancee and loses her to sleaze-ball fighter, in debt to mobsters, Wincott becomes a mob enforcer which trains him for a one on one fight against his rival to win back his fiancee in this appalling actioner. There is so much wrong with this movie, that I don't where to begin this review. Deadly Bet is so out of touch with reality it borders on self parody, add in tons of cheap melodrama and routinely staged fightscenes and one of the most inept scripts and you have Deadly Bet a quite bad fight flick. Which is sad because this movie has potential to be really fun, the problem is that the movie sets up Wincott as too much of a chump who typically deserves his fate. How are we supposed to root for a character who would bet his own mother? He constantly is getting hand-outs from his brother-in-law to be and each time he keeps making the mistake over and over again. This would've been passable stuff had the actionscenes were sone with some flair, unfortunately they're not. The climax in particular is sloppily staged with stupid cut backs to a mob hit, plus nothing makes sense after this. The fight itself is mediocre but hardly takes true advantage of Wincott's martial arts pedigree, in his good roles he can be effective but not when it comes to roles that make him thoroughly unlikable. It doesn't help that Jeff Wincott's look makes him seem quite sleazy. Basically this low budget martial arts clinker brings nothing new to the table and comes off as a yawner.. D.Richard W.Munchkin* |