21

Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller -Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his ...more

There's nothing more dangerous than taking a profound risk, however calculated. At the same time, there's nothing more rewarding than facing this jeopardy head-on, especially when the payoff is potentially huge. The characters in 21 learn these facts under difficult and almost unbelievable circumstances. Based on the true story of a horde of co-ed MIT brainiacs who scammed millions from Las Vegas casinos by counting cards, a cunning act which is neither illegal nor does it have anything to do ...more

Some stories lend themselves effortlessly to film, and Ben Mezrich's nonfiction tome -Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions marks no exception. Even the headlines engendered by this tale sang a biting, irreverent ode to the wiles of a half-dozen underdog co-eds who managed to beat the evil "system" at its own game through sheer cunning and frightening intelligence. How can one make an unexciting film out of this material? In sum, one cannot; ...more