Saturday, August 16, 2008

21

Rating: 6.7/10
Genre: Drama
Overall value for money and time: 6.9/10

Based on true accounts, the movie is about card counting and how a team of MIT students went to Vegas to win their millions. The mastermind is their professor, starring Kevin Spacey and the rest of the stars are fairly low profile. The main lead is the same lead for "Across the Universe". Those interested in card counting will not learn the methodology viewing this movie, for it only scraps the surface of it. For those who're just curious and ignorant of such a technique, this movie is a great eye-opener. However, this movie lacks a climax in it, though it does have a handful of intelligent and memorable scripts. Initially, I thought this movie was all about card "cheating", but it's not. The main focus was on the characters' developments. Being a card fanatic, the movie didn't live up to my expectations, a disappointment like the other cardshark movie "Shade"...

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