21

This is about the most perfect example I can think of for the definition of an AVERAGE Hollywood movie. It's somewhat entertaining, but not exciting, it's got decent performances, but not great ones, the story is ok, but predictable and uninspired, it's competently shot, but not brilliantly so, the script is passable, but not memorable...It's just mediocre and average in every way. You won't regret watching it, but you probably won't remember watching it either in a couple weeks.

Even when everything gets tidied up oh-so-neatly, '21' offers strong performances from Sturgess, Spacey and Bosworth, some laughs, a swift pace, and keeps the methods of the scam easy for the audience to play along. This isn't excellent filmmaking, but it's a winning surprise in vein of last year's youth-oriented "Disturbia." If this one doesn't exactly bring down the house, by all means- it's a winning hand.

Goes through the motions of a movie that wants to be good but it just ends up being a forgettable piece of trash. Let's show a shot of MIT and/or Harvard in every other scene. DO YOU GET IT? THEY ARE SMART. Kevin Spacey is awesome and Jim Sturgess is all right but it's not enough - the script blows and so does the directing. And another thing, Kate Bosworth's eyes = horrifying.

It's entertaining. But it sucks. But it's kind of entertaining! But really, this isn't that great. It's predictable, sappy average popcorn-flick fun, I guess, and that's only if you see it with a group of friends at 10:25pm when you have nothing else to do.

An offensively slick, glossy, and Hollywoodized version of what's otherwise a pretty interesting story. The pop music montages and the fact that all the card counters look like models and the way they shoehorn in some good vs evil bullshit all adds up to fluffy, forgettable junk food. Kate Bosworth has been playing a college undergrad for a fucking decade.