Lower-class Steve with Belgravia socialite Helen; and his nouveau riche wife Sybil with working-class Les, a private detective she has hired to kill her husband.

[citation needed] Variety wrote:Actor/playwright Steven Berkoff's own film of his stage play Decadence is a ripe, belching, heaving, power-drill satire of 1980s Thatcherite Britain that's as full of excesses as the passe targets it parodies.

Essentially a two-hander, with Berkoff himself and Joan Collins in multiple roles, pic has some fine moments but finally sinks under the weight of its own ego.

[2]Stella Bruzzi wrote in Sight and Sound:Berkoff's style is gross, grandiose and expressionistic.

He always has been and will most likely remain the performer most capable of realising his own idiosyncratic brand of physical acting appears inappropriately maniacal playing more traditional villains opposite Rambo, James Bond and the Krays as if the films were big enough to contain his violent caricatures.