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21 Movie Fails to Inspire
posted on May 12th, 2008 by Leviathan in Opinionated Fail
Here’s my thoughts on the movie 21. It fails hard.
Now let me qualify my thoughts a little. The movie started out well enough, building the characters up and foreshadowing events to come. However, as soon as the MIT prodigy started to associate with the professor-turned-gamblomaniac, the movie went downhill. It seems the writers and directors thought best to disregard the actual events the movie is based on and instead over-hollywoodize the entire movie both technically and artistically. Half way through the movie, I realized that I didn’t give a damn about any of the characters and it became cliche and predictable. Their whole scheme of counting cards was never really explained well and the overly ridiculous and obvious signals they make to each other are, DUH, eventually noticed by casino security. Funny then, that they keep going back to the same casinos even though security is after them.
The movie was marginally redeemed by the genuinely surprise ending but it wasn’t enough to save 21 from the pit of mediocrity and dumbed-down, overly hollywood-ized crap that’s plaguing the industry lately. Too bad because I saw the potential for a truly exciting movie. You know things are bad when an IMDB comment cited the History Channel documentary on the real students as more entertaining than the film.
I hereby declare that the movie 21 failed miserably.
Here’s my thoughts on the movie 21. It fails hard.
Now let me qualify my thoughts a little. The movie started out well enough, building the characters up and foreshadowing events to come. However, as soon as the MIT prodigy started to associate with the professor-turned-gamblomaniac, the movie went downhill. It seems the writers and directors thought best to disregard the actual events the movie is based on and instead over-hollywoodize the entire movie both technically and artistically. Half way through the movie, I realized that I didn’t give a damn about any of the characters and it became cliche and predictable. Their whole scheme of counting cards was never really explained well and the overly ridiculous and obvious signals they make to each other are, DUH, eventually noticed by casino security. Funny then, that they keep going back to the same casinos even though security is after them.
The movie was marginally redeemed by the genuinely surprise ending but it wasn’t enough to save 21 from the pit of mediocrity and dumbed-down, overly hollywood-ized crap that’s plaguing the industry lately. Too bad because I saw the potential for a truly exciting movie. You know things are bad when an IMDB comment cited the History Channel documentary on the real students as more entertaining than the film.
I hereby declare that the movie 21 failed miserably.
