21

 (2008)

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Not The Movie It Could Have Been
Mar 31, 2008
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This movie was based on a true story, and if the makers had stuck closer to the true story it could have been a much better movie. But no, they had to Hollywoodize it and dumb it down so that... Read more
Mar 31, 2008
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It is a good movie based on MIT smart students who are brought together by a MIT professor to play blackjack and make lots of moeny. They are good at card counting and use some strategies to make lots of money as a team in Vegas. It is based on the book "Bringing Down the House " and is really good to watch. I enjoyed this movie every bit- especially since I am a blackjack fan myself I liked the way it was directed. It seemed to be simple and had a lotttttt of realism. One of the students joins the team of students since the professor find him to be a genius at math and fast at counting. He does not want to do it initially- he is an ideal student but he agrees since he has to pay for med school. If you want to watch a realistic movie with a good story, I would really recommend this.
Entertaining but very cliché.
Apr 21, 2008
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21 is worth seeing on a restless Friday or Saturday night with friends, but it isn't anything more than that. The film features nice performances from actors Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, as well as nice entries from the lesser... Read more
Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner
Apr 01, 2008
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There are many stories about success based on hard-work and perseverance. There have also been many stories about success based on crime and abandonment of the law. Both of these scenarios can make for great movies -- but when a... Read more
Good, but not Great
Mar 09, 2008
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This film screened at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX. It is a reasonable well-made based-on-a-true-story film that tells the story of a group of MIT students who attempt to make a fortune counting cards in Vegas. The screenplay... Read more
Nothing new, but it's worth the watch
Apr 03, 2008
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21 is definitely the major film for the spring time, it has young hot actors, including an incredible academy award winner, Kevin Spacey, and another great actor who's head looks like it grew quite a bit bigger, Lawarence Fishburne. So... Read more
"Winner Winner Chicken Dinner"
Mar 28, 2008
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Slick camera work and some good performances rev up the technical quality of this fact-based story about a 21 year old MIT student named Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) who, along with his brainy Ivy League chums, travels to Vegas to... Read more
much better than you would expect!!
Feb 05, 2008
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I was lucky enough to see this film for free at a special screening in greater London as part of a market research by the film industry. even though it was free i would have paid good money to see... Read more
I had the really cool opportunity to see an advance screening of "21" tonight. Having read the book when it first came out, I was a bit skeptical about whether it would translate well. I couldn't have been more pleased.... Read more
Doesn't even work as a fairytale
Apr 01, 2008
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I was intrigued by the preview of 21 because I'm a sucker for films about gambling, and this is a film about gambling ~ it's the director/writers gambling with our intelligence, hoping we're completely devoid of brainpower, which would make... Read more