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21 BlackJack it's a 2008 film directed by Robert Luketic and starring Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and Laurence Fishburne. The film is inspired by a true story, that of the MIT Blackjack Team told in the book tearing down the house of Ben Mezrich. Ben Campbell is an student that has been accepted in Harvard but he need money to pay all the expenses that Harvard asks, focused on a recent promotion in his job as a salesman at a local store and at work he will present with his friends for the science competition to make money for Harvard. He is professor Micky Rosa proposes to Ben to join a group full of very clever students who go on weekends to play BlackJack using traps thanks to sign language, he accepts to be able to win the money he requires but ends up in the vice of the game. We could not finish the movie, but i like the evolution of the main character Ben Mezrich, start being a geek and than acting like a cool guy but being more arrogant and believed. I was...

21 Black Jack uses the theme of the card game, money, LAS VEGAS ... they create expectations that later fade away with an excessively long film, dangerously predictable and with a loose script where a teacher recruits his best students to get rich , mixing business, with ambition, selfishness etc. From all this I could draw, or at least I see it that way, a criticism towards bets, which probably do not end well in many cases, because of that desire to win and win.

The movie that we have been watching the week before Christmas vacation is 21 BlackJack, is a  heist drama film directed by Robert Luketic. The main character of the movie is Ben Campbell a young student who needs money to pay for college tuition. His professor Micky Rosa, tells him that every week a group of boys go to the Las Vegas to play Blackjack, and earn money. Finally he accept  to play BlackJack whit the group and he starts earning money through to his exellent mathematical and memory qualities. We could not finish the movie, I was very intrigued and I saw the end of the movie at home. The negative part of this movie is in the game that is insipired, it is not an easy game and it makes comprension a bit more difficult. I recomend this movie because it is not very slow and it becomes entertaining.