liked it,didn't love it

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2008)

while i liked this movie,i didn't love it.it was entertaining,but not really very substantive.plus,while watching,i couldn't help but think i'd had seen the movie before,under a different title and with different actors.the name of said movie still escapes me.to be fair though,when you make a film centered around the subject of gambling,there's isn't too much you can do to distinguish one from another.i will say,though,that i thought Kevin Spacey was brilliant in his performance and Laurence Fishburne was equally good.Spacey and Fishburne owned the movie in their scenes.Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess were also in the movie,but were overshadowed by Spacey&&&possible minor spoiler***Spacey and Fishburne are hardly really in the movie and i don't think he and i don't think they had any scenes together****.i was mildly entertained,and never bored,but nothing beyond that.for me,21 is a 6/10