Highly entertaining despite historical Inaccuracies

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2008)

Okay, first let's dispense with the pleasantries. Jim Sturgess, Laurence Fishburne, and Kevin Spacey are all of course their perpetually brilliant selves. The script is nice and tight, with plenty of physical and verbal humor. It's a thoroughly enjoyable movie...but Anyone who's a fan of the real story though will be both off put and possibly offended. In the book Bringing down the House, the four main students are all Asian. I understand this is an American movie, so I can see why the studio would cast mostly white people...hey, it's money what can you say? The thing that irks me SO much is the time frame. The MIT Blackjack team originated in the late 70's. This incident, with Ben Campbell, took place in '94. There was no Vitamin Water and there were definitely no PSP's. We're supposedly watching the story in modern times as they face a software program developed over a decade ago! But by all means, go see this movie. you'll realize how truly little this actually matters, but I for one just can't get over it. It really is solid on every other front though.
6/10