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Rating: Null/10 (2 December 2011)

Along the years, England had given the world a long list of great exports. Charles Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Potter! Now the gent named Jim Sturgess doesn't belong to this list at all. In fact, due to him.. England should be ashamed of herself!
When you have an actor who doesn't act well, then it's a problem. But when you have an actor who doesn't act well in a movie, where all the actors along with everything else are very well, then it's a bigger problem!
This is a smart movie. I loved the way its narrative works. It follows, to great extent, the pattern of Oliver Stone's Wall Street, but mastered having its own merits. It is about wicked manipulating, once on Vegas casinos, then once more on the impostor teacher and us as viewers (the end's twist). The real wickedness is in how that is told; through the lead while talking about experiences that he had while being in his early twenties. To assure that, see how the old experience of the casino's head of security could beat the scientific cunning, or how the impostor teacher - imprisoned in his classroom, hotel rooms, and theories - is the one who loses eventually. So, having an experience, by wading into practical life, has unmistakable glorification.
The script makes a nagging boss for that security man, not to thrill by secondary conflict, but to underline the message of "your computer can't do this". The complicated mathematics, and the huge very advanced electronic minds, all can be defeated in this movie by the human wit. Human relationships are being defended too, since the lead discovers that his friends are more significant than money and business. While glorifying the human experience, intelligence, the movie's substance glorifies, and has victory for, the human in general against a world of machinery and pure materialism.
It seems perfect as fun ride with tight pace, many surprises, colorful image, a very happy end where everybody wins, and the evil goes to hell. So as a whole, this is smart and enjoyable as well. However, there was a love scene that I thought was unnecessary as the heroine herself. And.. there was Mr. Sturgess!
That guy was an obvious dissonant tone. Between Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, he seemed like Droopy in Tom and Jerry Kids show. And while being the lead actor, it was even worse than that Tom and Jerry show!
Seriously speaking, he's as sleepy as Droopy, and less fun than him; remember the moment where he was making faces in front of a mirror; it's one of the most AWFUL scenes I have ever seen in a Hollywood movie lately! At another moment, he tells, ironically, that he's used to be mistaken for Tom Cruise. Baby, one look at you made me finally discover how I underrated Cruise as an actor for ages!
Save the sole thing he mastered, a flawless American accent, Sturgess was undoubtedly a flaw in this movie. He looks all-the-time stoned, or totally indifferent at best. With his pale charisma and monotonous utterance, I don't know how he is chosen to be in this movie or any movie for that matter. Sturgess' character availed a lot of his 2 mentors in the movie, played by Spacey and Fishburne, unlike Sturgess himself with these 2 acting mentors I suppose!
21 is a memorable commercial movie about brilliant swindle done with another brilliant swindle, which could produce a meaning about growing up. It gives "21" a peculiar double meaning and good reputation in terms of being the right age to learn about life. And it portrays, in a way, how "slick" overpowers "genius", "friendship" overpowers "business", and "man" overpowers "machine". Its sole problem isn't in the lifeless Jim Sturgess, it's rather in the weird decision of casting him, being a stupid move in a movie full of smartness.
If whoever manages the process of casting doesn't know how to perfect their job, then, my advice will be for Sturgess himself: dear jimmy, for the love of god, your homeland England, its repute, and the poor us. Before handling your next movie, try to have a good, really good, deal of sleep. Then, after being so awake and fresh, please, think of another possible career or.. continue sleeping!