The movie 21 is based upon the book entitled “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions” by Ben Mezrich.  It was filmed in las vegas nv which starred Kevin Spacey (as Micky Rosa) and Jim Sturgess (as Ben Campbell).  Kate Bosworth co-stars on this movie of counting numbers as a group to beat the system of Blackjack.

The movie revolves around Ben Campbell who is an extrememly gifted M.I.T. student who immediately impresses his prefessor Micky Rosa.  It turns out that Micky is also the leader of a gambling ring at the university: He oversees a group of students who travel to Las Vegas each weekend and manage to elude the eagle eyes of the casino operators – who are forever on the lookout for card counters – and return back to Massachusetts tens of thousands of dollars richer.

The movie will not teach how to count cards nor teach you how to play Blackjack.  Instead, it is more focused on the back-story that Ben needs to earn money so he can pay for Harvard Medical School – which apparently no longer offers student loans.

Each scene is string well together.  Some people are dismayed as the makers of the film did not elaborate more on the strategies played against the Blackjack system.  But this is a movie not a documentary.  If you want to learn how to play Blackjack, this is not the movie for you.  Instead, go flip your channel to Discovery.