MIT nerd to luxury gambler

Rating: 6/10 (24 January 2020)

In the film, 21 the main summary is about Jim sturges (Ben Campbell) a very gifted- smart student from Massachusetts needing money to get into Harvard medical school, he meets a group of other very gifted students being led by one of his professors Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey) who is leading them and teaching them to use their math skills to win large amounts of money in black jack, going on runs and loving the luxurie life with a good twist at the end, and don't forget the intelligent Villain Laurence Fishburne (Cole Williams) as he plays the serious "invincible" type man as he plays in the Matrix as well. As all Kevin Spacey movies usually are, this movie is an entertaining, high stakes intense movie that keeps the audience engaged. Kevin Spacey having so much talent and successful films form the past, playing the part as the man who brings adrenaline to the movie like the Usual Suspects (1995) being one of my favorite Kevin Spacey movies. Ben Campbell being somewhat new to the movie scene plays that part very well of being the young genius who falls in love with the luxuries and thrill of winning enormous amounts of money.
Overall I think the movie is very entertaining with many scenes and action that will keep your attention and keep your heart racing, the director Robert Luketic does a great job with the angles on which he films the sciences in the casino and the detail he accounts, with the disguises they wear to High tension scenes using close up portrait shots where you can see there forehead sweat from being so nervous. The movie displays a story line that gives the "nerds" a praise in the movie that's very entertaining to see. The film let's you experience the thrill of winning big through the TV screen and feel as if you are there in these high anxiety moments. All though this movie has many upsides there are also some flaws in the movie, the movie seems to always come back with an intense scene ever so often to keep the audience engaged but the film also seems cheesy in a way as it feels to jump around and becomes somewhat unrealistic. The movie does a great job of portraying as something that has or could happen in real life but some of the flaws come from getting too crazy with it, as you see in the movie when the group uses their secret signal tactics to indicate something using the same ones over and over again, as in a real casino I believe they would get caught a lot earlier in their road to fame. Although this movie suffered from some flaws as all movies do, with a combination of some great actors, the thrill of luxuries and thrill that many dream about I found this movie was an eye catching movie that I enjoyed watching greatly.