21 (2008) User Reviews

SO syrupy and pre digested a piece of work I was almost ready to gag myself a few times. No brainwork at all required, the only thing to be said for it was it was easy to follow and not boring, just sickeningly predictable........young people will like it because they have not seen it before as one of the professional critics above noted,

05/22/2008, 9:29 am

This was a fun movie

05/22/2008, 7:54 am

This movie looks like an extremly good movie. It seems to me, that this movie will be sitting in the box office as the

05/22/2008, 9:28 am

hi (:

05/22/2008, 9:29 am

"21" could have been so much better. The story line had so many holes and improbabilities...and I don't mean relating to Blackjack. Why do they keep going to the same casino where the same security guy can watch them when there are hundreds of Casinos in Vegas...just stupid. And if they did go to many different casinos, as they alluded to in their "planning", why did the same security guy, who only worked for "one or two" casinos in all of Vegas, keep seeing them over and over again. Another thoughtless "based on a true story" Hollywood adaptation with contrived plot lines in an attempt to add drama and excitement. I have not read the book, but I imagine the real story was more interesting.

05/22/2008, 9:29 am

Well, although the movie is not really related to what happened in real life, Hollywood doesn't "water it down." The movie was very enjoyable and had a perfect pace. I was never bored. The slight suspense and fun of gambling proved for an awesome story line. In a word, the movie was fun!

05/22/2008, 9:29 am

good!

05/22/2008, 5:32 pm

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24381965401The beginning...http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/03/25/count_her_out/?page=full"Willis, 38, who grew up in Mount Vernon, Ill., had never played blackjack when she joined the team in the early 1990s. Then a student at Harvard Law School, Willis and her boyfriend were both "math geeks." They were also friends with Jeff Ma, an MIT student who was one of the ringleaders of the school's clandestine blackjack club. "Jeff would occasionally have an expensive bottle of wine or champagne, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Then he told us about Vegas," Willis says. "I think it dawned on him that we could play blackjack and also give the team, which was mostly Asian and male, a little diversity."What was planned for the movie...http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N43/43vegas.html"During the talk, Mezrich mentioned the stereotypical Hollywood casting process — though most of the actual blackjack team was composed of Asian males, a studio executive involved in the casting process said that most of the film’s actors would be white, with perhaps an Asian female."What actually happened...http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=1114"Perhaps in response to criticisms that 21 was “White-washing” the story, the filmmaker also cast Asian American actors Lisa Lapira and Aaron Yoo in the movie, but they remain secondary characters, distantly-removed from the story of the White male and female protagonists".How the Asian American characters were portrayed...http://www.enterprisenews.com/entertainment/x1565506635"The previous year, the scholarship Ben seeks went to a one-legged Korean student. He’s not the only Asian character “21” cuts off at the knees. The real-life students mostly were Asian-Americans, but “21” whitewashes its cast and disappointingly lumps its only major Asian actors (Aaron Yoo and Liza Lapira) into one-note designations as the team’s kleptomaniac and a slot-playing “loser.”

05/22/2008, 9:28 am

THIS IS STUPID BECAUSE I WANTED TO WATCH IT TONIGHT AND ITS NOT ON DVD YET>>>>>>BOOOOOOO.:)

07/10/2008, 6:20 pm