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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: Blu-ray Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396215290 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Item Dimensions: Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: 21529 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 22, 2008 Running Time: 123 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: March 28, 2008 Editorial Review: Product Description: Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor (Kevin Spacey) and armed with fake IDs intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control.System Requirements:Running Time: 123 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/BUDDIES Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396215290 Manufacturer No: 21529 Amazon.com: An unconvincing exercise in moral complexity, 21 is based on Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) plays brilliant, blue-collar scholar Ben Campbell, whose doubts that he'll win a scholarship to Harvard Medical School compel him to join a secret, M.I.T. gang of math whiz kids. Under the silky but chilling command of a math professor (Kevin Spacey), Jim and the others master card counting, i.e., the statistical analysis of cards dealt in blackjack games. The team lives a humdrum existence during the week, but on weekends in Sin City, the students are rolling in cash, going to exclusive clubs, and feeling on top of the world. (Ben even gets the girl: a comely, fellow counter played by Kate Bosworth.) Despite all that success, Ben feels ethically compromised, and indeed director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde), in the old tradition of American movies, plays it both ways where fun vices are concerned. On the one hand, it feels so good; on the other, ahem, we know it's wrong. That studied ambivalence proves wearing after a while, making the most interesting character in the film a casino watchdog played by Laurence Fishburne. A master at reading the emotions of gamblers beating the house with a scam, he's admirable for being good at his job, but repellent for wrecking the faces of counters in casino dungeons. He's all about moral complexity in the tradition of anti-heroes, and a truly provocative element in an otherwise superficial movie. --Tom Keogh Beyond 21
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 Rating: - Based on a true story?The movie is based on a true story, but the plot is changed so much from the book, it is hardly recognizeable. The movie captures the excitement of the team counting cards in Vegas, but the characters are unbelievable. Kevin Spacey plays an vindictive professor who organizes the team. Spacey does a competent job, but the character's motivations are so over the top is unbelievable he's never been caught or he can keep his job as a professor at MIT. Sturgess plays a very smart student trying who accepted ... Read More Rating:  - Has anyone ever heard of a student loan?This movie's fatal flaw is that it never addresses the obvious solutions to any of the myriad problems it poses. The question in my review title is hypothetical; I realize that if the main character had gotten a student loan for medical school, the plot wouldn't have been possible. However, the movie asks us to suspend disbelief far too many times, and in completely unrealistic ways. The idea of student loans is never even MENTIONED and we're supposed to believe that a smart MIT student like the one ... Read More Rating:  - great moviethis movie was fantastic! i love jim sturgess in across the universe and he is equally amazing in this film. kevin spacey also does a spectacular job with his character Rating: - Winner Winner Chicken DinnerBased off the true story of the MIT kids who schemed their way through Vegas, 21, follows the shy, cute, genius, Ben Campbell (played by Jim Sturgess) through the ups and downs of gambling. His teacher Prof. Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) pushes him into joining an elite group of MIT students who have been taking trips to Vegas and winning thousands in black jack by counting cards. Ben Campbell is trying to find a way to fund his new acceptance to Harvard Medical School, so he joins the team, and ... Read More Rating:  - 21 - Blu-ray InfoVersion: U.S.A / Region-A MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / BD-Java Enhanced / High Profile 4.1 Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 Running time: 2:02:41 Movie size: 36,13 GB Disc size: 46,49 GB Average video bit rate: 25.76 Mbps Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1591 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1591kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps) Dolby TrueHD Audio French 1563 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1563kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps) ... Read More |
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