Wednesday, April 2, 2008

21 the movie review

21 was a great thrilling suspense and action movie. You first start with the average student citizen trying to get through college and the strains of getting funds to be able to attend. You then meet what appears to be a willing teacher and aid in a college professor who offers the world to him through counting cards and taking on the casino's.
You go through the fast paced world of learning signs, signals, code words, and the dangerous life of a card counter. Here is where the supposed villian appears as a sercurity manager trying to save his job which is quickly being replaced by technology.
After experiencing another life, our main character learns the harsh reality of losing, which he has not really learned. Then after losing a large amount of money which belonged to his mentor and disobeying the rules the mentor turns on him and steals all he had won over the few months that they had been playing the system. Our main character then turns to the members of his club and tries to mend the fences with his mentor saying that they will go one more time and take the casino's for all they are worth. Then the chase leads while the security manager attempts to capture them.
Then our twist in the story comes, and after explaining everything, we focus again on our main character where he is being interviewed for a scholorship where he tells of his life expereince which is supposed to 'jump off the page."
Overall it was a good movie and fast paced, which is good and sets the mood of the story. Some of the plot lacks a little in respect to his Vegas life, its mainly casino's, and living the high life. The music selected was great. The fake people they portray at casino's were really transparent and you wonder why they were never caught before now. The refernces to history in the mentors class about stealing and betrayl were really interesting as they showed that history can be repeated and learned from. On a rating out of 10 I would give this movie an 8. Not really a family movie but a good date or group watch.

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