Sunday 18 May 2008

21


21.....blackjack.....pontoon.....or whatever.

Jim Sturgess is the student whiz kid in need of funds to pay for his education who is recruited by his teacher, Kevin Spacey, to join a team of bright students who use a memory scheme to win big at the casinos in Las Vegas.

I took a shine to Sturgess in The Beatles music movie Across The Universe and I have always enjoyed Spacey as an actor. They are the best aspects of this movie; Sturgess appealing as the shy, good boy at heart and Spacey doing his specialist turn as the devil in disguise.

The rest of the cast is less interesting in a movie where it is best not to think logically or too carefully about the massive holes in the plot. Otherwise, the movie filled in two hours late on a cold Saturday afternoon.

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