21 Reviews

21 Reviews - Bad

  • RogerEbert.com: 21 Review
    • "Inspired by the real-life story of the M.I.T. students who took Las Vegas casinos for millions, 21 has been reshaped to fit a simple movie template -- and it's nearly as much fun as watching an insurance professional compute actuarial tables."
  • USA Today: 21 Review
    • "Repetitive, implausible and overlong. "
  • The Washington Post: 21 Review
    • "It's a would-be parable about greed that emptily celebrates it, a drama about gifted people who are one-dimensional voids and, most laughable of all, a story about the giddiness of risk-taking that safely plays everything by the numbers. "
  • The Village Voice: 21 Review
    • "A movie that wastes a lot of time and money and really, really shoulda stayed in Vegas."
  • E! Online: 21 Review
    • "It's disposable, watchable and forgettable filmmaking for would-be easy millionaires."

21 Reviews - Good

  • Creative Loafing: 21 Review
    • "Manages to make the act of counting cards seem as exciting as this past winter's Super Bowl -- and as perilous as climbing Mount Everest with both eyes closed. "
  • Rolling Stone: 21 Review
    • "Loosely adapted from Ben Mezrich's best-selling Bringing Down the House, the movie stretches facts like taffy but never shirks its responsibility to entertain."
  • Variety: 21 Review
    • "...shrewdly shuffles together attractive young leads, cagey screen vets and a fantasy-fulfillment scenario in a slickly polished package..."

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