An entertaining no-brainer

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2014)

The story revolves around Ben, a brilliant student studying in MIT who is exceptionally good with numbers. He needs $300,000 for Harvard School of Medicine. To get the money, he joins Micky Rosa, a math professor at MIT and four other students who count cards while playing 21 in Casinos. After making a lot of money over multiple trips to Vegas, he ends up making mistakes and gets caught by nasty security guards. Micky takes all the money he won and his MIT degree after the goof-up. Having lost everything, Ben plans to take revenge from Micky.
The cast has done a good job to make the movie both engaging and entertaining. Kevin Spacey (Micky) has given an exemplary performance by portraying the unorthodox professor really well. However, the movie does not make much sense inspite of being based on a real life incidence. The team used to return to the same casinos and attracted a lot of unnecessary attention. Even the sign language they used to communicate was fairly obvious and did not change over time. Such childish mistakes from the smart MIT kids makes the plot inconsistent.
Overall, it is a good movie to watch and I give it 3 out of 5.