21 Don't Gamble on This **

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2009)

The MIT senior who wants to attend Harvard Medical School and winds up falling in with a physics professor and his gang who desire to clean out Las Vegas using the scientific method.
Sounds exciting, but after a while, who cares? In his pursuit to pay for Harvard Medical, our hero joins this group made up of Kevin Spacey, who is quite effective as a college professor, who missed his goal of being a totally natural gambler.
There are the usual elements. Our hero finds love, and truly finds himself on this odyssey. He ignores his friends and when the professor turns on him for a poor gambling performance at the tables, all appears lost.
Laurence Fishburne plays a heavy in this film.
At the end, our hero tells this story to dazzle the Harvard Admission person. Nothing really dazzling here.
Don't gamble on this one.