Interesting plot with unappealing characters

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2012)

The plot about the professor training these people to count cards was interesting, but it seemed totally unnecessary to recruit bright engineers and the like.
The idea that this guy was a promising engineer who wanted to give all that up and go to medical school already made it difficult for me to like him.
If you end up watching this, you'll see that the main character does plenty of other deeds that make it unappealing for viewers to like him and in fact I didn't really like anyone on the card-counting team. They all cheated on tax and none had any ambition for using the money on anything other than a good time or (in the main character's case) an unnecessary degree.
The notion that this engineer devised a better method than the famous "Newton method" was preposterous. Furthermore, being good at engineering-type mathematics would not imply that he'd be quick at calculating the price of a suit.