21 [Blu-ray]
by Robert Luketic
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Actor: Aaron Yoo, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Liza LapiraDirector: Robert Luketic
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of 21 [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: too much dramatization and unbelieveable from time to time
Summary: 2 Stars
this movie has a lot of dramatization. and things hard to believe, such as beating up a card counter... many books i read said that they only tell you not to play at the blackjack table ever again. i'd recommend watching Breaking Vegas (2004) which is a more accurate story of what actually happened.
DVD Review: very goood!!
Summary: 4 Stars
story,and actor... very good movie, i do interesting british actor very much,, jim sturgess.. james macvoy..orlando bloom
naomi wats.. they are great,aren't they?
DVD Review: Based on a true story?
Summary: 3 Stars
The movie is based on a true story, but the plot is changed so much from the book, it is hardly recognizeable. The movie captures the excitement of the team counting cards in Vegas, but the characters are unbelievable. Kevin Spacey plays a vindictive professor who organizes the team. Spacey does a competent job, but the character's motivations are so over the top that it is unbelievable he's never been caught or he can keep his job as a professor at MIT. Sturgess plays a very smart student trying to make some money because he was accepted into Havard Med. School. The timeline is very confusing. Is the whole story a flashback? However, I thought the essay is what kicked the plot off. The love story is not very convincing or interesting. Also, these Vegas trips were business trips for these students. According to the accounts I read, they did not regularly go to strip clubs. They went on overnight trips. They did not have time to for all the partying in the movie.
The aspects of the movie I liked best was how they showed the signaling and card counting working. The gambling was done well. The scenes of college life were good.
In summary, it is not a horrible movie, but it could have been so much better. The real story is fascinating. The movie only partially generates that excitement.
DVD Review: Has anyone ever heard of a student loan?
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie's fatal flaw is that it never addresses the obvious solutions to any of the myriad problems it poses. The question in my review title is hypothetical; I realize that if the main character had gotten a student loan for medical school, the plot wouldn't have been possible. However, the movie asks us to suspend disbelief far too many times, and in completely unrealistic ways. The idea of student loans is never even MENTIONED and we're supposed to believe that a smart MIT student like the one played by Jim Sturgess has no other way of paying for Harvard Med. If that's the case, how the hell did he pay for an expensive school like MIT in the first place? We're also supposed to believe that these smart people who KNOW they're being watched are intelligent enough to put on fake-looking mustaches and wigs (Though not the ethnic kids; I guess if you're not white it's assumed that no one could possibly remember your face anyhow.) but not to change their totally obvious hand signals. Then there's the part where we're supposed to believe that their otherwise cool and collected leader would change his mind about gambling just in time for a key plot twist strictly on the basis of a sixty second conversation. Oh and of course everything wraps itself up in a neat little bow.
In a way I'm biased, because I knew I would hate this movie from the moment it began. Sturgess is a likable enough actor, but his narration never worked for me. Throughout the movie he keeps repeating the phrase "Winner, winner chicken dinner" -- and even though he explains it, it makes about as much sense as any of the other plot holes in this crappy movie.
I don't care how big of a Kevin Spacey fan you used to be. There is no reason on earth to see this movie. Everything from the ending to the "twist" to the soundtrack is 100% predictable, and you (obviously) don't have to be an MIT student to figure it out.
DVD Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
this movie was fantastic! i love jim sturgess in across the universe and he is equally amazing in this film. kevin spacey also does a spectacular job with his character
Description of 21 [Blu-ray]
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.System Requirements:Running Time: 123 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre:?DRAMA/BUDDIES Rating:?PG-13 UPC:?043396215290 Manufacturer No:?21529An unconvincing exercise in moral complexity, 21 is based on Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) plays brilliant, blue-collar scholar Ben Campbell, whose doubts that he'll win a scholarship to Harvard Medical School compel him to join a secret, M.I.T. gang of math whiz kids. Under the silky but chilling command of a math professor (Kevin Spacey), Jim and the others master card counting, i.e., the statistical analysis of cards dealt in blackjack games. The team lives a humdrum existence during the week, but on weekends in Sin City, the students are rolling in cash, going to exclusive clubs, and feeling on top of the world. (Ben even gets the girl: a comely, fellow counter played by Kate Bosworth.) Despite all that success, Ben feels ethically compromised, and indeed director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde), in the old tradition of American movies, plays it both ways where fun vices are concerned. On the one hand, it feels so good; on the other, ahem, we know it's wrong. That studied ambivalence proves wearing after a while, making the most interesting character in the film a casino watchdog played by Laurence Fishburne. A master at reading the emotions of gamblers beating the house with a scam, he's admirable for being good at his job, but repellent for wrecking the faces of counters in casino dungeons. He's all about moral complexity in the tradition of anti-heroes, and a truly provocative element in an otherwise superficial movie. --Tom Keogh
Beyond 21
 Two-disc Special Edition DVD |  Read the book 21 was based on |  UMD for PSP |
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