MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Niall O'Hara I watched this film on a relaxed Sunday evening expecting it to be a light heated flick and an enjoyable game of blackjack, similar to Oceans Eleven or Focus. Instead I found myself feeling anxious the whole time, waiting for the team to fail and inevitably loose all there money. Not the edge of you seat anxious, more the awkward 'why are they doing this' anxious. Of course it came to a relatively satisfying conclusion, as these types of films often do, but I gained little enjoyment from watching this as it was so obvious that everything had to go wrong at some point.Saying this, if you like cards and tense situations then this may be a good film for you. The acting was below average from most of the leads but, as always, Kevin spacey is a delight to watch. A standard plot and some interesting camera work make this an okay film, but there are better, similar films out there.My personal recommendations in order of preference would be:1. Oceans Eleven, 2. Rainman 3. The Hangover 4. Focus

shl13132 21 is predictable and has clouded motivations on what we are hearing this story.Despite a few performances the acting is dull and wooden. The characters are not fleshed out except for our leading actor who had the strongest performance, even though his performance was still not that strong. The script is messy and predictable. Once Kevin Spacey's character is invited back to play in Vegas again you know what is going to happen for the last half hour of the movie. The opening and closing scenes are probably the worst thing this movie has going for it. It opens up that this college student wants to get a scholarship to Harvard because he can't afford the tuition and he has to write an essay about a life experience that would make the school want to give him this scholarship. So he decides to tell the school about how he went to Vegas and became a criminal and got his teacher at MIT beat up by the casino security. Then in the closing scene he makes all of these comments like: "Does that impress you?" or "Did that make you go 'wow'?" The other part about the script that bothered me was how they kept going back to the same casino even though they knew security was watching them and knew who they were. For the dialogue, there is some really cheesy romantic dialogue that doesn't work. Also some scenes are supposed to funny and they really are not. This movie was very disappointing please don't watch it. Save yourself the pain.

Johan Dondokambey The story is based on a book so it does feel very much grandiose. The movie nicely introduces the basics of the subject of blackjack card counting and showing good depiction of first hand practice. Yet the movie wisely refrains from showing the details of the introduced basics so as not to encourage the practice even more. The added twists nicely start at the exact half time of the movie. Those twists and turns escalated on an accelerated rate well enough until the movie hits us with the double hidden story flow that's revealed as the surprise ending at the finale. The acting overall is decently good. Jim Sturgess portrayed the semi nerd college student with almost perfect expressions. Kevin Spacey lives up to his reputation as one of the ultimate antagonists. Kate Bosworth nicely provided the love interest angle. Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapra also adds well enough to the team setting.

Jordache Wee 21 is a drama biopic on the lives of a genius individual whose is Jeffrey Ma. Written and interviewed by Ben Mezrich. An intriguing story about "what if" but now forget the "what if" because it already happened.The film is portrayed in a more of a "what if" plot because Ben Campbell may be smart but he is reluctant to take chances if he gets caught for counting cards.The antagonist in the film – Micky Rosa is the mastermind for every winnings. He is just the planner and yet getting the biggest portion. Ben was recruited because he is impressed with Ben's mathematics and Ben eventually needed money or scholarship to complete his studies. Otherwise he will ended up nowhere.21 is almost like a teen movie retelling in heist crime using genius brains to win. Overall, there's nothing more you can expect from this film. Predictable.