When I first saw this movie, I thought it was pretty bad. Well, I gave it another chance and it turns out it's REALLY bad.

Bom, eu geralmente dou 3 estrelas pra filmes que não são uma total perda de tempo, mas que pra mim ver uma vez talvez seja o suficiente! O que eu tenho a dizer sobre 21 é que se for pra ver um filme que tenha gente contando cartas, veja Rain Man.

This is not a great film. The plot's formulaic, the whole "high-school drama" thing going on between the two leads doesn't work, and Kate Bosworth looks massively uncomfortable the whole time.

And yet... I love this movie.

Maybe it's seeing Laurence Fishburne trying to be a bad-ass. Maybe I have a thing for heist movies. Or maybe it's my massive, throbbing man-crush on Kevin Spacey.

Who knows... in any case, I love this bizarre little film, warts and all, and no-one will convince me otherewise.

C-

Pathetic. Kevin Spacey has two or three of his patented glorious asshole moments as a slimy teacher slash gambling con mentor, and the rest is a steaming pile of Blandy McBlandville with some horrendous techno BGM. "Winner, winner, chicken dinner!" must be THE lamest self-encouraging pep chant I've heard in a movie. It has to be. (33%)

Kevin Spacey makes the movie work

Passable, but formulaic in the extreme and as a result highly lampoonable and utterly, utterly predictable. To quote my brother: "I actually feel stupider for having watched this."

Incredibly cheap-looking digital photography too. It actually looked like a day-time soap opera in places.

Oh, look, still bad. Maybe if the entire cast (save Kevin Spacey) wasn't so boring this movie could be kind of okay.

Kevin Spacey just being Kevin Spacey.

Slight, but enjoyable enough fun. Kevin Spacey can play this kind of role in his sleep and unfortunately we learn very little about him, or indeed any of the characters, with the exception of Ben. Thoroughly predictable throughout, including the denouement, it is mildly diverting and offers little else.

Nagyon jó!!!!!

When I first saw this movie, I thought it was pretty bad. Well, I gave it another chance and it turns out it's REALLY bad.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Hatte ich besser in Erinnerung.

A very fun film with good (but rare) action scenes and surprisingly, a worthwhile plot. It even has a few turns at the end. Based on a true story, it could have been really bad or really great, but they did a decent job on this film. Although looking back on it now, it has an incredibly big amount of flaws and some scenes and material that were not thought out very much, the film is very enjoyable. Kate Bosworth is also very awesome.

“21″ bereitet ein unverbrauchtes Thema spannend auf. Dabei kann Regisseur Robert Luketic (Das Schwiegermonster, Natürlich blond!) mit Jim Sturgess (Schrei in der Vergangenheit, Die Schwester der Königin) und Kevin Spacey (Superman Returns, American Beauty) auf zwei sympathische und gut agierende Hauptdarsteller zurückgreifen, denen mit Kate Bosworth (Total verknallt in Ted Hamilton, Gegen jede Regel) eine hübsche und talentierte Schauspielerin an die Seite gestellt wurde.

Zwar kann die Story nicht immer gänzlich überzeugen, ist aber so solide inszeniert worden, dass man über kleinere Schwächen gerne hinwegsieht. So bleiben die Figuren, die neben Ben Campbell, Mickey Rosa und Jill Taylor von den verantwortlichen erschaffen wurden recht blass und kommen kaum über eine Statistenrolle hinaus.

Auch hätte man die Casinosequenzen einen ticken spannender inszenieren können. Zwar steht aus meiner Sicht nicht das “Black Jack”-Spiel im Mittelpunkt des Interesses, doch hätte man dies ruhig ein wenig expliziter zeigen dürfen.

Unter dem Strich ist “21″ ein gelungener, wenn ich nicht perfekter Film, der Spaß macht.