21 Review

On my theme of "based on true stories," I am reviewing the movie "21" starring Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, and Lawrence Fischer.

Unlike "The Bank Job", this movie moves fast, never leaves you sitting bored, and is filled with action, gambling, violence, and MIT (who would've thought!) This movie seems probable to true, leaning more towards true. It is about a MIT student needing 300,000 to pay for Harvard Med. Being amazing with numbers, he is invited into a "Blackjack Card-counters 'Club'" taught by Kevin Spacey. Spacey takes his "class" to Vegas to count cards and win unimaginable amounts of money without getting caught.

It was amazing to watch this movie and think, wow, this- or something nearby to this- happened. Nothing that happened in the movie was out of reach of fact, everything could have actually happened, which is what makes the movie so fascinating.

I would give this movie 4 and a half stars, because it "jumps off the page and dazzles me."