McCheesy's take on "21"

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2008)

'm not really a fan of the game Blackjack or any of those card games (with the exception of poker) so I had some problems going into this film. Will I understand the film with all the Blackjack thing going on? Add to that the card counting and stuff? Well, it turns out it wasn't a problem after all. They somehow managed to explain the card counting bit but no worries because you can still understand the film even if you don't know Blackjack.
Jim Sturgess, an up and coming young star, stars as MIT student Ben Campbell. He is persuaded by his teacher Micky Rosa (Spacey) to join a team of card-counting MIT misfits so he can pay off his Harvard Med plans. Kate Bosworth and Laurence Fishburne co-stars.
The script, directing, acting, cinematography, editing, the casino scenes, the laugh-out-loud scenes, the Kevin Spacey scenes: its all good. Laurence Fishburne as an old-school Vegas thug was so badass, he will go down in the "2008's Badass in Films" list.