I’m a sucker for Las Vegas location films. Can’t get enough of them. This one was a “serious” Vegas movie, and it gets a bit scarey when Lawrence Fishburn turns on his “bad ass” mode. But, hey…that’s what the Vegas “edge” is about.

I agree with others that it had a weak story line, but there is some great photography and the mini-romance between Sturgess and Bosworth adds a bit of spice. The DVD also has some nice featurettes on playing Blackjack and how the film was made. At the very least, it takes you out of your own world for a couple of hours and, to me, that’s entertaining.

made me happy because it involved counting. i like to count. it calms me.

I liked “21” in spite of itself. It’s not well written, it’s not well directed, and most of the supporting cast is incredibly annoying. It’s a very interesting story, but you definitely come away with the feeling that you just watched the incredibly fictionalized version (of the non-fictional book which also happened to be highly fictionalized). In fact, throughout the movie, I was constantly surprised that I was enjoying it, even as I groaned over one-liners a high school student would think are original and/or clever, and the direction that uses a slow-motion cigarette being dropped into a coffee cup to tell us that Lawrence Fishburne is a tough guy. The movie definitely needs to be watched when you’re not in a serious mood – otherwise you might question why a “genius” would use his dorm room ceiling as a hiding place for $300K. Maybe I’m just a sucker for Jim Sturgess’s charm, but I don’t regret watching it.

Wasn’t nearly as good as the book it was based upon.