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2008/3/28-4/6 [Recreation/Media] UID:49600 Activity:nil
3/28    You guys gonna see 21 the Movie about MIT kids?
        Support your fellow nerds?
        \_ Apparently the movie makes a mash of the real story, which is
           (as is typically the case) much more interesting than the
           fictionalized version.
        \_ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23785878
        \_ I'm not planning to see it. This morning's merc review said
           the movie had almost nothing in common with the real story.
           Based on the trailers I've seen it looks like boring knock
           off of a Hustle eps or a George Clooney movie.
        \_ Sounded pretty boring.  With movie prices so high these days I only
           see the flash and bang fx flicks at the movies.  For everyting else
           there is netflix, cable, and free play-anytime movies on cable.
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MSNBC TV 21' craps out If something about this film was interesting, it apparently stayed in Vegas Image: 21 from Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) teaches MIT student Ben (Jim Sturgess) the art of card counting in "21." Alonso Duralde Film critic One would expect a movie about high-stakes gambling in Las Vegas and young, attractive savants using their smarts to break the bank at blackjack to be sexy and thrilling. Unfortunately, "21" winds up being about as exciting as freshman calculus. Based exceedingly loosely on a true story, the film follows a crew of MIT math whizzes who cultivate their card-counting skills to rake in the chips. Jim Sturgess ("Across the Universe") stars as Ben, a senior who's been keeping his nose to the grindstone and maintained an impressive 40 average. But just as he's trying to figure out how he and his working-class mom are going to be able to afford to send him to Harvard Medical School, along comes a devil on his shoulder in the personage of Professor Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey). Micky used to be a casino card counter himself, but now he leaves the heavy lifting to a cadre of students who have been specially trained to watch the blackjack dealers' decks and signal their co-conspirators when the terrain is looking hospitable. Quick facts Wait for cable Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Laurence Fishburne, Liza LaPira Director: Robert Luketic Run time: 2 hours, 2 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13 The methodology of the scam is interesting, but director Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde") and writers Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb (adapting Ben Mezrich's book "Bringing Down the House") don't seem particularly interested in it, instead focusing on such yawners as Ben's attraction to golden girl Jill (Kate Bosworth), his estranged relationship with his nerdy best pals, and the machinations of a casino security guard (Laurence Fishburne) who has a long-standing beef against Micky. Sturgess is attractive but not particularly interesting, and he pales in both regards opposite Bosworth, who is stunningly gorgeous but possessed of an epic vapidness. Buena Vista Pictures The only element in "21" that saves the film from being a dreary coming-of-age story grafted onto a two-hour commercial for the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau is Spacey, who does sparkling wickedness like almost no other actor of his generation. Watching Micky lead Ben astray gives the movie its only jolt of life, even after it becomes clear that Micky is a total rotter, and Spacey single-handedly keeps things interesting even as the plot leads to the eventual double-crosses and triple-crosses that most viewers will see coming from miles away. "21" has been packaged with lots of flash and sass, but it's ultimately a sucker bet.