Kevin Spacey's college students beat Vegas at their own game, but we're left dangling. Click for our verdict, the trailer and tell us what you think.
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Shall be seeing this at the weekend. I've read the book it's based on, very good, so will be interesting to see how it compares
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Wathed this on Friday night & would recommend it
From what I can remember, the storyline stayed fairly true to the book
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I was talking complete rubbish just then, dunno what I was on that day. 21 was the only thing that looked like it was worth seeing when I wanted to fulfilm my subs pass quota.
Chances are the real-life Asian card counters, if they're still card counting, will be quite happy to have their places taken by white actors, if it lets them carry on doing it!!
The film itself is produced by Spacey's own production company and for that reason, he really does sit back, takes the wise-elder role and lets the young'uns act, particularly Jim Sturgess as smart-but-broke Ben. The actual card scenes have got the Ocean's series, CSI and Casino Royale to compete with and they mostly pull it off. Reading the book first makes it interesting to see what they left out, but it's a fun flick which I'm glad I watched on the big screen.
However I do know that Ben Mezrich wrote two Vegas books and I never read the first - so I'd better get off and find the one before Bringing Down The House.
Edited Mon 28 Apr at 2:56pm
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A less than full deck for this says Film editor Chris, the epitome of the inoffensive (unless you’re Asian) thriller.
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