Another way to earn money

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2008)

21 is as much a story of an intellectually bright kid wanting to break into Harvard Medical School with a scholarship that promises to take care of the entire course fee as it is about the game of Blackjack. I don't know anything about blackjack nor I understood its aspects by watching the movie, yet it was fun. With its protagonists and leading character being the brightest minds of the MIT, some of the conversations in the movie tend to make you look stupid. The scene when Ben Campbell explains how he will choose the door behind which the car will be present in a game show accounting for some hi funda factors like Variable change is a case in the point. I have to confess that I did not make out anything about it.
There are many such instances, but the movie is not about the technicalities. It is about the life changing experience that Ben undergoes through the steps that he undertakes to collect money to fund his Harvard ambitions. The turn of things are indeed bizarre and certainly he does dazzle and jump out to merit your attention.
This is a movie which students on the crossroads of moving abroad for pursuing higher studies will relate to more than others but having said that, it is a movie for all. Fun to watch. So catch 21 for some lighter moments even if your in the midst of a catch 22 situation.