21 review

Mohamed Khalifa
A movie that hit the Hollywood box office hard was the movie 21, which is based off a true story. The movie starred actor Jim Sturgess, who played a boy genius in the movie named, Ben Campbell. His character was extremely good at math and was very bright the school he attended was MIT, but his plans were to go to Harvard medicine, he had the grades and the work ethic and he even got accepted. The problem was is that he didn’t have the money, he needed 300,000 for tuition, and he didn’t have that kind of money.
The story takes place in a college atmosphere and the main character in this movie is what people call a loser, he had only two friends and he never had a girl friend, but there was a particular girl he was looking at and had a thing for. Her name was Jill Taylor she was played by actress Kate Bosworth, but he never had the guts to say anything to her. In the movie Ben Campbell meets his professor played by Kevin Spacey, the professor in the movie thought that Ben was a very intelligent young man, and wanted him to join his secret club. What they did in this club was go to Los Vegas and play black jack in the casinos. The professor taught the students in the club how to count cards in black jack that way the students would always win, and make lots of money. Ben took the offer because he thought that was his ticket into Harvard, but he thought wrong.
The movie was very exciting and could put you at the edge of your seat, but there were some flaws in the movie as well, such as is was not very realistic time wise and the events were harder to believe that it was a true story. The movie was also made you think about the possibility of making money and there is no easy way you can get what you want, with out getting caught. The actors in the movie were very good in terms of following there roles especially the main character, you could get a feel of how the real people were like in the real life story. They also made you relate to the story and how everyone goes through similar phases in ones life.