Baccarat

I sat patiently through this stinker by Stuart Canterbury (no one else to blame, as we wrote, directed and edited), waiting for something interesting to happen, and when the ""To be continued..." card showed up at the end, nothing occurred. Just sex and one of the dullest gambling events ever shown.

At the outset, after humping his girlfriend Stacy Nichols by the pool, Jerry Butler explains that he likes the pure gambling aspect of the game of baccarat -it's all luck. He takes Stacy to a private game, run by Don Fernando (the big boss), Steve Drake and as their dealer Melanie Moore.

We never get a shot of the cards, just Melanie announcing them and the house always seems to win. Kim Wilde plays a big loser, who borrows plenty of money and bets it wildly. Both T. T. Boy and Butler leave early, ahead. And there's two scenes of sex on the baccarat table (substituting for porn's old standby, sex on a pool table).

Video ends with Butler back home staring from his balcony at the night sky. Canterbury seems to have sucked all the life out of his script, deciding that watching five dull sex scenes is all he owes his audience. Part 2 adds Debi Diamond to the cast, obviously a plus, but nothing could save this uninspired project.