Charmer bamboozles himself

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2010)

Chris seems a conscious social-climber of poor Irish origin who has normalised his accent past that of his tennis audience towards that of London executives. He offers moral support to a beautiful aspiring actress lacking confidence for her auditions and seduces her by forthright approach, only immaturely to spurn her pregnancy and clumsily prevent its disclosure to his upper-class in-laws. Stolen jewellery, seemingly incriminating him, distances him further from the shooting when blind luck contrives to place it into the pocket of a drug-addicted robber apprehended by police; tallying with the film's basic premise: that it is better to be lucky than good.