"21"
Movie Review
by Kevin Carr


    ** (out of 5 stars)

    STARRING
    Jim Sturgess as BEN CAMPBELL
    Kevin Spacey as MICKY ROSA
    Kate Bosworth as JILL TAYLOR
    Aaron Yo as CHOI
    Liza Lapira as KIANNA
    Jacob Pitts as FISHER
    Laurence Fishburne as COLE WILLIAMS

    Rated PG-13
    Opens March 28, 2008
    Studio: Columbia Pictures

    Directed by: Robert Luketic

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If there’s one thing in Hollywood that gets on my nerves, it’s the “Inspired by a True Story” label on films. Not even close enough to be “Based on a True Story,” these inspired tales twist the truth so much that we’re left with just a sparkle of truth in a morass of made up crap.

This is the biggest problem with the new film “21,” which tells the story of a group of MIT students who work with a professor to perfect a system of card counting for blackjack. The kids travel to Vegas on the weekends and clean up.

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