Gambling is a crime: 21 - The movie
Saturday, June 14th, 2008On Thursday I was in Sofia, Bulgaria for a business trip with my father. I took my iBook G4 for business and pleasure. At 19:30 I was a dead-meat. I decided to go quickly to bed, but I didn’t wanna close my eyes and sleep. I opened the iBook and took a look at my Movies folder. I had few episodes of my favourite Greek series, s1ngles season 3 and “21“. Due to positive feedback I decided to pick “21″. The DVD rip that I made at home, didn’t include the Greek subtitles, I had no internet connection to look for them on line. I can always use bluetooth and my mobile phone when the game goes hard, but it wasn’t worth it: The price per kb is outrageously high, when you’re using mobile internet via phone and not a HSDPA device. After all I’m quite fluent and I easily understand English. Of course listening the Brits is much easier, but I didn’t think of it twice and watched the movie without subtitles in plain USA English. To tell you the truth I missed a few lines at the beginning. I had to get used to it.
The plot is very interesting. The cast is well chosen. Kevin Spacey was outstanding as always. This guy is the best actor I can think of. It just makes you believe whatever he wants, almost naturally. Jim Sturgess as “Ben Cambell” is very good. The boy has some skills. The plot, is good although it’s a Deja Vu as a total. I liked the way Robert Luketic brought this scenario to the big screen.
Being a senior in the MIT with good grades is enough for most people, but apparently our genius friend “Ben”, wanted “Harvard Med School” too. Hence the need for money because the chances of getting the scholarship are as low as 0,33%. Not because he is not good, but because the other applicants are just as impressive. Now, what is going to do, is get 300.000 $ he needs to access Harvard without the scholarship. So the story begins…
“21″ is a good movie, especially if you like gambling, smart asses and Las Vegas. I think that everyone will enjoy this fine grained adventure of young Ben. There’s a bit of everything, luck, tactics, brainwashing, love… To make the movie look a Hollywood-driven quality movie.
Just enjoy the vision, it’s worthy!
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