21
6 MIT students stormed Vegas casinos for millions in winnings after receiving special training to be experts in card counting.
July1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
19 June 1986, Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
31 May 1951, Boyce, Virginia, USA
14 June 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 02, 2009
When the movie 21 was announced with Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, it sounded like a winner. When everybody else involved in 21 was mentioned, it was doomed to be a loser.
March 31, 2008
Although it's definitely a fictionalization of a true story, they get the essence of this insanely crazy double life that these kids led as they were breaking the bank in Vegas.
October 18, 2008
If only director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb had not opted for glitz. As filmmakers, they're playing for very low stakes.
July 07, 2010
Too bland, too bright and too long, 21 may talk a big game but it is mainly insipid entertainment.
March 31, 2008
Like the Strip itself, it's all lights and music throbbing so hard you confuse yourself into thinking you're having fun.
August 27, 2009
Luketic's dunderheaded, would-be caper is a morality tale where the only moral at stake is the dullard-hero's thoughtless entitlement
March 28, 2008
Inspired by the real-life story of the M.I.T. students who took Las Vegas casinos for millions, 21 has been reshaped to fit a simple movie template -- and it's nearly as much fun as watching an insurance professional compute actuarial tables.
July 24, 2009
It's a slick enough movie, with an intriguing enough concept. It would be a much more enjoyable movie, however, if the wheels didn't come off script-wise.
March 31, 2008
The students are so blandly written this never builds any suspense, though it probably has some value as an empowerment fantasy for debt-ridden collegians.
March 29, 2009
One can't help but think there was a smarter film to be made from this premise.
October 24, 2012
Craps out leaving you wondering how it all went so wrong.
April 11, 2008
The whizzo-conceit and slick visual bling do give it an undeniably diverting buzz, yet the movie's cautionary formula shows its hand way before the clunky final reel.
