FILM REVIEW - Marina Díaz

21 BLACKJACK

The film "21 Blackjack" was directed by Robert Luketic. The main actors his Jim Sturguess as Ben, Kevin Spacey as the professor, Kate Basworth as Jill, Aaron Yoo as Choi, Liza Lapira as Kianna and Jacob Pitts as Fisher.

21 Blackjack is a film about a boy called Ben Campbell. In his university he join a group of students who are prepared to win at the balckjack and this group travel to Las Vegas every weekend. They are prepared by his professor of mathematic and statistics genius, he discover the code of winning at this game.

I recommended this movie for the people like his kind of film. For a people dosn't like the film is boring. Personally, I not would see the movie again.

Film review Èric De Nájera

-21 Blackjack is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic. The film is inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House,

-Ben Campbell, is a shy MIT student who needs money for Harvard. He comes up with a plan to earn some cash by counting cards. Then things get exciting when others join to the plan. Micky Rosa is an unorthodox math professor and stats genius who leads the way: the team develops a sophisticated system of counting cards and uses signals to consistently win in blackjack and when they while playing they have to avoid getting caught by the casino.

-One of the positives parts of that film is that it's a movie where always are happening different things and never you get bored.

-One of the negative parts of that film is that It can incite the children to steal or bet playing the blackjack.

-I recommend it very much because it is one of the very few good movies that have put us in the school

Film Review Sara Benito

REVIEW FILM 21 BLACKJACK

The movie 21 BlackJack treats on a boy that the numbers are its biggest skill, then a teacher invites him to join a group of studients who have a strategy to win to the BlackJack in Las Vegas.

The film explain their tricks, the problems that arise and how they are making money.

Main Characters:

• Ben (Jim Sturgess): Main carácter
• Micky (Kevin Spacey): Teacher and leader of group
• Jill (Kate Bosworth): Girlfriend of Ben and component of the group
• Choi (Aaron Yoo): Component of the group
• Kianna (Liza Lapira): Other of BlackJack group
• Fisher (Jacob Pitts): Component that later they have expelled
• Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburnes): casino supervisor
• Cam and Miles (Sam Golzari and Josh Gad): Bestfriends of Ben

What I liked most about the film It has been the reason why Ben accepts to be part of the team because it is to pay his studies for his future.

But what I did not like is there have been moments of the movie that have been very slow and have been bored.

Film Review. 21blackjack: Jordi Codina

21 blackjack is a movie about a Harvard student who have the opportunity to join in a group of students that are influenced by a teacher and they go every weekends to Las Vegas, to cheat (card counting) on casinos and earn money.

Ben Campbell (the protagonist) have the hopes that he will receive the scholarship to study in Harvard, with the time he see that is more complicated than he thought and he join in a secret group to earn money for Harvard.

I like the movie in general, but I don't like the change of good teacher to bad, and some scenes like in which 2 Harvard students appear on the subway.

I don’t recommend this movie, it's a good movie to watch if you don’t have nothing to do, I don't think I'll remember it if you ask me the next year.

Film Review

21 Jack Black is a movie about life choices, it follows a kid who discovers he has a talent for cards and, thanks to a little buissness a professor of his runs he can use it to get some easy money from normies at casinos.
Here the protagonist is presented with a dilemma, he does not know how to manage his time. As he goes out more with his newfound mates, the movie shows more scenes of his nerdy friends pressuring him to go out with them to make progress on a project they planned to present at a technology conference long ago. Later on, he dumps them for good because he has expanded his social life, which to me sends a very conflicting message to the teens in the audience: dont associate with people who are socially inferior to you...?

Similarly to a real review, i have not done any research about this movie and i have only been exposed to around 60 minutes of it, which is enough for me to rant about non-existant issues for the pretentious readers and elitist film critiquers to agree with. So the cinematography is good and all, the script is clear and concise, but do you know what holds this movie back?

BLACK PEOPLE

The lack of race representation in this movie is astounding, you might argue that one of the members of the crew is asian but i don't really give a fuck about him because he's a cisgendered male therfore doesen't appeal to my ideology and representation quotas i force into everything, we need black people and transgender folk but let's stick to races for today. Basically, this movie promotes racism because the protagonist is not black, and therefore is unacceptable to watch unless you're a bigot. And i dont need to justify my claims because an army of keyboard warriors will witch-hunt you over twitter if you disagree with me.

I think i should have stick to making fun of bad reviews instead of radical social justice.

5/10 needs more diversity or something

film review-Victor Febrero 1E

21Black Jack is a 2008 American heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Aaron Yoo, and Kieu Chinh. The film is inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the best-selling book by Ben Mezrich.

Ben Campbell is a MIT mathematical student who wants to get in Harvard but he has enough money to afford it. After the first exam with a grade of 97% his teacher Mickey Rosa invite him to join the blackjack team and he met his teammates including Jill, the girl he likes. After that the team go to Las Vegas and try to win a lot of money evading the security of the casino with a secret language.

One thing I liked about the film is the plot, I think is a very good idea and very attractive for teenagers because is about a group of teenagers and its easier to get on with the characters.

On the other had in didn’t liked how does it becomes, from a good idea, to create a very lineal and predictable film, the main characters haven’t a big change during the film they are very lineal too.

In conclusion I think that it isn’t a bad movie but it could be better, I would recommend to see it if its in public TV a Saturday afternoon but I wouldn’t recommend it to buy it and see it after dinner.