21 - A Must See Movie

hello (= - this past weekend my boyfriend & i saw the film 21 in the movie theater .. according to some reports: "all George Clooney & Jodie Foster had to do was beat a deck of cards – make that, a surprisingly resilient deck of cards" .. the movie reigned again as the number one movie at the weekend box office * this results in topping Clooney's new film: Leatherheads, & Foster's new one: Nim's Island .. this card counting drama pulled in another $15.1 million – bringing its two week-total to $45.5 million .. talk about a nice amount of money lol - but what was really interesting to me was that 21 is indeed a fact-based story, regarding six M.I.T. students who were trained to become experts in card counting * & subsequently took Vegas casinos for large amounts of money .. the film 21 is about a shy, but brilliant M.I.T. student [Jim Sturgess] who needed to find a way to come up with the money to pay his school tuition - of three hundred thousand dollars in order to be able to go to Harvard Med * a school he always dreamt of attending .. he found the answer through cards - when he recruited to join a group of students that head to Vegas on the weekends, armed with fake identities, & the ability to know how to turn the odds of blackjack in their favor .. along with having a math professor that was a statistics genius leading the way, they cracked many codes .. by counting cards & employing an intricate system of signals – the team mastered the casinos big time * seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, as well as Ben's teammate that he was very much attracted to [Kate Bosworth] – Ben begins to push the limits & take even more chances .. although counting cards is not legal & the stakes are very high – the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casino's menacing enforcer [Laurence Fishburne] whom is very much onto them – especially Jim .. i do not want to give away any endings, but i very much recommend to whoever is reading this: to go see it as soon as possible .. it was a film that kept the audience on the edge of their seats – from the beginning to the very end .. i love movies that catch & keep my attention - & if you do too, then this film is a must see (= .. ciao *