Many, many "roll your eyes" moments

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2008)

This story is so improbable (even after suspending disbelief) that it doesn't even make for a Let me see if I've got this straight.
A super-smart geek with nearly everything going for him (but money) decides to risk his entire future by joining forces with a crooked professor who used to be a gambler but now teaches at Harvard, just so he can win $300,000 so he can go to medical school. Furthermore, the professor (who has everything to lose in this scenario) recruits his super-smart students in some kind of organized crime syndicate that flies to Vegas on the weekends.
Oh, and the super-smart geek changes his mind about joining the blackjack group for absolutely no discernible reason. He turns down the brilliant professor. Then he turns down the beautiful temptress. Then, suddenly, for seemingly no reason whatsoever, he shows up to the card-counting class.
Oh, and instead of flying to Vegas and withdrawing the money there, these supposedly super-smart geeks stuff the money into their pants to get it through airport security.
Oh, and the card counters, who are not supposed to know each other, walk into every single casino in a dramatic slow-motion Delta formation -- and gather in the same suite to plan their strategy, as if there are no cameras in the hotel portion.
Oh, and 10,000 security cameras on the floor are not supposed to notice the tall, lanky HOT women obviously and conspicuously CROSSING THEIR ARMS BEHIND THEM to signal the super-smart geeks at the high-roller tables.
Oh, and the super-smart professor who manufactured this brilliant scheme does not suspect a thing when his ostracized prodigy comes back to the fold to help him win more money without the professor lifting a finger.
Get my drift? There are more "roll your eyes" moments in this movie than any movie I can remember in recent history. Not only that, the musical score seems oddly out-of-place
In the ultimate irony, when the DVD ended and I changed over to regular TV, the scarecrow was in the middle of singing "If I only had a brain." I wish he had sung it before the movie started and given me a little hint of what was to come.