21 (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Buy This Item 21 (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Sony Pictures  Available from Amazon  $22.99  on 8-27-2008     Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor (Kevin Spacey) and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now, his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control. Reader Reviews I normally don't like movies about college students and their problems very much, they make me feel too nostalgic. I normally don't like movies about gambling very much, not even when they are dressed up as thrillers. (Exceptions possible, eg Casino Royal) What possessed me when I tried out whether a cross breed of the two genres might work, I can't remember. The answer is a straightforward 'no'. However, at the same time, this movie here is so incompetent in its execution, while at the same time it does seem to contain the nucleus for a viable thriller, that I felt continuously thinking about how one might have saved it. Don't bother, let it rot. Watching Spacey as diabolic math professor made me nostalgic for Kayser Soze. Fishburn is possibly the only character here with a trace element of human interest: the security consultant to the casinos in process of being replaced by computers.

21 (Two-Disc Special Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $22.99 Updated on 8-27-2008.

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