Hot on his heels comes Jim Sturgess, who plays the lead (Ben Campbell), a broke MIT student who is refused entry to Harvard Medical School due to impossibly high tuition fees.īased on a true story (the novel Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich), the plot is tight and slick as the game itself from the moment Rosa, Ben’s somewhat eccentric math professor, introduces the lad to a small group of students who he is training to count cards in blackjack. My second reason for watching was Kevin Spacey (who I’ve been in love with since American Beauty) and his performance as Mickey Rosa, the genius mastermind behind the whole plot, certainly doesn’t disappoint. In fact, after finishing the film, I can recommend that nowadays you can just try this blackjack strategy from home in online casinos. I’ve tried my hand at blackjack a few times myself with dismal results, so I reckoned watching six MIT students younger than myself become millionaires playing it might teach me some tricks. Watching movies and visiting online casinos topped the list of preferred pastimes, and the 2008 movie aptly called ’21’ brings both of these together.įor those of you still in the dark, 21 is another name for blackjack, a popular casino card game requiring some skill, and the inspiration behind the title. As the world struggled to get to grips with a pandemic that kept us indoors twiddling our thumbs, thousands of new hobbies came out, while some old favorites rose from rekindled ashes.
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