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Casino Gambling Blog Here you will find news and strategy related to all your favorite casino games with a special emphasis on Internet casinos. Movie "21": Gambling911.com Sits Down With Inspiration for the Story Jeff Ma
Jim Sturgess plays the character based on Jeff Ma in the film adaptation "21". Gambling911.com's own Anna Casada had a chance to sit down with Jeff Ma this week to discuss the film, which opens Friday March 28, 2008, and has been getting plenty of buzz and promotional exposure during some of television's highest rated shows.
21 - The Movie: 50/50 on The Tomato Meter
While the film doesn't officially open until March 28, a number of Rotten Tomatoes film critics have reviewed the film and thus far, reaction has been mixed. Glitzy on the surface, Luketic's fact-inspired fantasy-adventure is yet another Faustian morality tale, but as scripted it defies narrative logic and has too many implausible twists and turns and at least three endings, writes Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.com On the other hand, there was Peter Travers of RollingStone. He thoroughly enjoyed it. Odds are you're going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas bank in the 1990s. Loosely adapted from Ben Mezrich's best-selling Bringing Down the House, the movie stretches facts like taffy but never shirks its responsibility to entertain.
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Posted
Mar 26 2008
11:37 pm EST
by Carrie Stroup
Before it was a
movie, "21" was a
book.
"Bringing Down The
House" was the
inside story of six
MIT students who
took Vegas for
millions of dollars.
Among them, Jeff Ma.
With only 12 reviews
in for the movie
"21", the film has
hardly scored a
blackjack among film
critics in its
initial screening.