21 (2008)

2008 • 122 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award Winner Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) and young Hollywood super star Kate Boswoth (Superman Returns) star in this clever & adreniline filled heist film. An MIT math whiz is recruited by a teacher to join a specialized team of card counters. They break away from their mentor before casino security finally catches up with them. Based on book "Bringing Down the House." It co-stars Lawrence Fishburne (Matrix Trilogy). © 2008 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and GH Three LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

Action-packed and interesting! One of the first tech/cryptocurrency black market/organized crime involving mostly fairly sophisticated, young college students glam films that was ever released at the time. Casinos are near-institutions here in Canada, largely in light of their involvement/dealings/business partnerships with Indigenous/First Nations leaders on Indigenous land (the so-called 'Indian casinos' type situation), but in any event, the casino is certainly significant and here to stay. A

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This movie was like a great story and very good and so the MIT students stayed at the hard rock at las vegas and a great story it was and they were getting beat up from counting cards