Powerful authentic event, but turned into a superficial flick. On video.

Rating: Null/10 (22 May 2008)

In the end of 2007/ or early 2008 I have seen a BBC documentary on exactly this case. I believe the documentary run for about 90 minutes, just as long as the motion picture.
The documentary was pretty exciting. It showed at least two of the (some of them now former) MIT students involved in the events. One of them was a gorgeous woman - so different from 'Jill' in the movie. Apart from being the more exciting film, the documentary told so much more about what happened, what they did, how it worked, where the money went, what different strategies had been applied before, the whole history behind it. The BBC documentary already was pretty cool. Back then I thought: "What a great feature film would this make?".
I even adore Kevin Spacey since American Beauty. I was biased to rate '21' high. But not this movie. I gave it four points. Everything above 6 points I'd consider unacceptably high.
By the way: I have the impression this movie was not filmed on chemical film but that it was in many parts, or even fully, recorded on video - is that so? I can't really say what gives me that videoish impression. Maybe some motion blur or other motion related artifacts? Or a deep field of view?