21 (Single-Disc Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Jack Gilpin, Jack Mcgee, Kevin Spacey
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 140
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 123
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 26718
UPC: 043396267183
EAN: 0043396267183
ASIN: B0018CWW5K
Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 2008
Release Date: July 22, 2008
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Condition: DVD IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION ARTWORK HAS SOME SLIGHT DAMAGE!!!!
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An 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
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Product Description
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: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/BUDDIES Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396267183 Manufacturer No: 26718
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 I've alwasy liked Kevin! August 27, 2008
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Add this one to your collection of fun and easy movies! Kevin won't let you down! :)
 Utterly Contrived Nonsense August 22, 2008
Intelligent film viewers beware:
Apparently, Ben Mezrich's fantastic, non-fictional account of beating the house -- for real -- in the mid-nineties was not good enough for the makers of this film.
For some incomprehensible reason, they took a fascinating real-life story, glammed it up, time-shifted it to the present day, packed it full of tired cliches and overused plot devices, and baked up what we have here -- a totally unbelievable, totally silly exercise in film frustration.
Even good actors cannot save a terrible script. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!? This could have been so smart, so good, just like the freaking book...
And by the way, the classroom exercise early in the film about a gameshow host and opening the doors makes absolutely no sense to me or my wife. Knowing what's behind the third door does not help you decide which of the two remaining doors is preferred. After door three is opened, the original choice of door number one becomes no more or less likely to win than door number two.
GET THE BOOK, it's great and might make you smarter. This movie will just make you dumber.
 **1/2 = I found this movie to be a lot of fun. August 21, 2008
I have to say that Jim Sturgess is actually a very handsome guy. He was excellent in "Across the Universe," which made me think: would "21" be a good movie now that he's actually in it. But I would have to admit as well that anything with Kevin Spacey in it is worth seeing. And yes, Kate Bosworth is actually very hot.
So I rent "21" hoping for some good things. The movie is as predictable as it can be but that's okay. It still is a fun movie.
"21" is the story of Ben Campell (Sturgess) who is the smartest guy in MIT high school aka Straight A student. His math teacher Micky Rosa (Spacey) teaches him how to play Black Jack and gives him the rules about how to play Black Jack. Ben falls in love with a girl named Jill (Bosworth) and together on weekends, they go to Las Vegas.
But the biggest criminal in Las Vegas is the idiotic Cole Williams (played by Laurence Fishburne). Cole Williams has the death fist and spies on people playing first come first served basis games of Black Jack. But that's the catch, Ben must try to get rid of Cole Williams ASAP.
The movie is sure a lot of fun but there could be some rough spots you can add up to. First of all the ending is very predictable. We all knew that Ben was going to get the money to go off to college. So what else can you add up to?
Laurence Fishburne was actually pretty good. He sure is the devil to beat but at least he's got the whole idea and concept of his character. I'm sure he knows that he follows up to his character more than Kevin Spacey, which Kevin Spacey is doing being rude and an evil menace to Kate Bosworth like he was in "Superman Returns" and that's the weirdest you can get from a sequel.
I wouldn't say that "21" is a terrible movie, but it's one of those movies that you can venture of into Las Vegas. It's fun, but we've seen movies like that before. We've seen that type of stuff in the Oceans movies and "Casino Royale" only Jim Sturgess doesn't have Sean Connery or Daniel Craig James Bond style.
Like a lot of films, there is something to catch. And the catch with "21" was that it was a great concept but weak on story and silly on characters.
Great Vegas Movie! August 20, 2008
I just came back from visiting Las Vegas for the first time and that inspired me to rent this movie. I am very impressed with 21.
The actors are great. Kevin Spacey is a great actor and he proves it again in this movie. The rest of the cast is great too.
The Blu-Ray looks great on a 1080p HDTV. Perhaps I just had Vegas fever from just being there but the scenes of the Strip and of the hotels make me feel like i'm right back in Vegas.
This is a great movie for a Blackjack fan, a Vegas fan, or just a fan of great movies. Highly recommended!
21 - a fun Ride while it lasted August 19, 2008
Jim Sturgess plays Ben, a working-class science nerd . He needs to find tuition for Harvard. Along comes his favorite math professor, Kevin Spacey, with an offer of extra credit that pays off in hard cash. The clincher is an invitation from the campus golden girl,Kate Bosworth, to join the team.
Ben ignores the obvious foreshadowing and joins Team Vegas, a gang of weekend card sharks with seductive double lives. At least until he loses his mentor's money and Spacey turns his charm into a threat.
Without giving away too much, let me just say, if you enjoy the rush of the fast life, and you also enjoyed the book "Bringing Down the House", give this movie a go.
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