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21 (2008)
description written by member Zara:
"21," based on Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions," revolves around a group of young men who become experts in the art of card counting.
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21 Movie Review by Tim  (7/21/2008) |
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Glad I didn't pay to see this film. It featured Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne meaning that I would have paid to rent it but my friend got a copy of it and brought it over. I was surprised that we even finished the film because we both were getting bored with it pretty quickly. Its just barely entertaining enough...
(complete 21 review by Tim)
| 21 Movie Review by Jarrod (3/30/2008) |
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'21' is based on a true story about how a group of MIT students were able to win millions of dollars in Vegas casinos by using a seemingly infallible set of formulas to count cards and beat the popular game of blackjack. How exactly this process works is a bit too complicated to explain plausibly to a general audience;...
(complete 21 review by Jarrod)
| 21 Movie Review by Adam (5/29/2008) |
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The odd thing about "21" is that with only a handful of augmentations, this could have been a really great tell-all, in the tradition of "Blow," or "Goodfellas." Sadly, this film choses to have more in common with Dawson's Creek than Scorsese.
The story isn't a bad one, and allegedly true. Young Ben, honor student and...
(complete 21 review by Adam)
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