21 (Blu-ray) PG-13
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- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jim Sturgess & Kevin Spacey | |
Performer: | Kate Bosworth & Laurence Fishburne | |
Directed by | Robert Luketic | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Steinfeld & Allan Loeb | |
Composition by | David Sardy | |
Produced by | Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey & Michael De Luca | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Carpenter | |
Executive Production by | William S. Beasley, Brett Ratner & Ryan Kavanaugh |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- Luketic places the film in capable hands with his two leads. Bosworth is sweetly determined....Spacey is clearly enjoying himself immensely...
Empire
3 stars out of 4 -- [I]t's a kick to watch Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 2/5 --
Can't decide whether it's high stakes or high school.
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The List
[A] film that offers viewers the thrill of breaking the bank at Las Vegas....Blown up on the big screen, 21 succeeds....Clearly a fascinating story.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
A breezy, fast-moving romp that trades well on its appeal as a glitzy caper movie about high-end scam artists without losing sight of its simmering greed-is-not-so-good theme.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 2/5 --
A scenario utterly Hollywoodised to death, with barely a movie cliché left untapped by the director and screenwriters.
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Patrick Nabarro
Luketic's dunderheaded, would-be caper is a morality tale where the only moral at stake is the dullard-hero's thoughtless entitlement
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CinePassion
Product Description:
Inspired by a true story, 21 mixes Las Vegas casino wheeling and dealing with college-kid angst: think OCEAN'S ELEVEN via THE PAPER CHASE. Kevin Spacey is crafty MIT professor Micky Rosa, who trains brainiac students to count cards and then flies them out to Vegas to raid the blackjack tables between classes. At first they rake in a bundle, but then catch the unwanted attention of tough-guy security chief, Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne) who wants to prove himself before he's replaced by face recognition software. Super math genius Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) originally joins the ring in order to come up with the $300,000 he needs for tuition money, but he's also gaga over the ring's resident babe, Jill (Kate Bosworth). When he finds out Professor Rosa hasn't been dealing entirely from a straight deck, Ben's high-end shopping spree dreams turn sour (though card counting is not illegal) and the battle of wits is on, no second chances given. Spacey is in his preternaturally calm, morally compromised element, stealing scenes left and right; Fishburne brings the hangdog depth; and everything bubbles over the 24-karat rocks, courtesy of director Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE). 21 is based on the bestseller BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE by Ben Mezrich.
Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
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.
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.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 35,961
- UPC: 043396215290
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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