21, Gambling is not always fun.

Advantages: good acting, nice story
Disadvantages: The charactor of Ben changes to quickly.

... 21 Gambling is not a game; it?s a way of life. A beautiful and good way to life, until it all goes wrong. General information Running: 117 minutes Category: drama Year: 2008 Director: Robert Luketic Language: English Country: United States Actor: Jim Sturgess as Ben Campbell Kevin Spacey as Professor Micky Rosa Kate Bosworth as Jill Taylor Aaron Yoo as Choi Liza Lapira as Kianna Jacob Pitts as Jimmy Fisher The story 21 What if you can earn a lot of money fast and easy without having to work? For student Ben Campell this sounds like a perfect plan, because he needs a lot of money fast. He?s student at the M.I.T. but wants to continue at Harvard, but needs 300.000 dollar to get in. He tries to get a scholarship and takes on a job where he earns 8 dollars an hour. But he doesn?t get the scholarship...

JL132 14.02.2010 · Read review
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21 - Counting cards pays off.

Advantages: An interesting story, more so because it is based upon fact.
Disadvantages: A bit predictable towards the end.

...21 I don't know what it say about me, but I like films were people beat the system, for example Ocean's 11, Inside Man etc and so I was looking forward to this film for a while. Even more so because the film is based upon fact. 21 is based on the book 'Bringing Down The House' by Ben Mezrich. What's it all about? The film is centres on the character of Ben Campbell played by Jim Sturgess. He is a student at MIT in Boston, who desperately wants to get into Harvard Medical School to become a doctor. The film opens with him being interviewed for a scholarship there, as paying is out of the question. The interview doesn't appear to be going so well, but then the story turns to Ben in maths class and here his natural ability shines. So much so, that he draws the attention of his lecturer played by Kevin Spacey. He is...

LAURALILIA 23.09.2009 · Read review
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I got the sony feeling

Advantages: Stylish, Size, Looks, performance
Disadvantages: None Yet

...The time had come for us to replace the television in our bedroom, after searching through the internet and visiting many electrical outlets, we decided on the Sony KV21CT1U television. We bough is from curry's for £199.99. So what does this Television offer you? The most important thing is how does my television look, this particular one I would say is very stylish and elegant, it's a stylish silver colour. Being a small flat screen TV it takes up very little room: Dimensions: Height-461 Width -497 Depth -487 Screen size of 21 inches (51cm) When you open the rather big box, you will find the following inside: 1x Remote Control 1x 2 packet battery 1x Loop aerial 1x Intensive instruction guide 1x Guarantee card Setting the TV up: Auto Tuning: Simply plug the TV in attach your ariel and let the machine do...

marcellep 05.05.2005 · Read review
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Sharp, silver and very sexy...

Advantages: Brilliant picture, great sound, stylish looks
Disadvantages: Expensive, clunky menu system

...Right, time for another Ciao op- I am trying to get some more written now I?m settling down in my job a little, and I hope people may have noticed that I have done my best to come in more regularly to read and rate, and get back into the Ciao community again! As promised, I?m going to review my latest electronic purchases as I described buying in my last Electrical Discount UK op, and I?ll start with my TV, which is a Sony KV-21LS30. When I was looking for a new TV I had to decide approximately what size I wanted and what features I needed. I decided 21 inches was as large as I could handle (oo-er! Sorry my ?Carry On? movie watching side comes out here) and that really made my decision on whether I wanted the latest widescreen format for me- 24 inches is about as small as these new sets go. I wasn?t really bothered about widescreen...

sparkydog 23.07.2002 (08.08.2002) · Read review
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BT bad Talk21 good

Advantages: Reliable, fast, functional
Disadvantages: Nothing special

...Bureaucratic Tendencies ... Barely Tenable ... Bloody Terrible ...Badly Turned Out ... Beautifully Tense ... Boringly Turgid ... Benefits Tiny ... Bodged-up Tools ... Buncha T***s ... Bendy Toes (eh?) ... Whatever!!! We've all got our views about BRITISH TELECOM and they're almost universally critical these days. Mrs D and I are as very unimpressed as anyone in this regard, but there is one offering in the BT stable which is difficult to fault, and that's the Talk21 free e-mail service. This is BT's contribution altruistically to the government's desire to get the UK on line and the 21 in the name refers to the 21st century apparently. For a free e-mail service, Talk21 is an amazingly strong offering. It offers almost 5Mb of web space for storing the messages and there's a pretty unique filtering function which allows you to send...

dave27 29.06.2001 · Read review
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The Heaviest 21 Grams in the World

Advantages: Screen performances that blow you away; intriguing disrupted sequence of tale in first hour.
Disadvantages: Storytelling should have gone completely linear towards end; fractured sequence lessens emotional impact.

...Non-linear storytelling seems to be all the rage these days, especially with the success of 'Memento' in 2000, with its reverse plot revelation (which I thought germane to the story of a man struck with amnesia). Thus we have ' 21 Grams ' , which was first released in 2003. In this exploration of American culture and the American psyche by screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Iñárritu (both of Mexico), we get a riveting, if intentionally incoherent, cinematic semi-masterpiece from the same duo responsible for the Spanish-language film, 'Amores Perros' in 2000. For ' 21 Grams ', the screenplay was written first in Spanish and then translated into English. Well, the fractured style adopted by director Iñárritu for the entire ' 21 Grams ' does intrigue mightily at first. Like a jumbled-up jigsaw puzzle with all...

zerbine28 16.01.2006 · Read review
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KV28FX20 A good all rounder.

Advantages: Good Picture, reasonable Sound.
Disadvantages: Relatively high price in comparison to other manufacturers

...Sony have always been a manufacturer who like to stay at the top of the market and the launch nearly 18 months ago of the FX20 in its current form merely confounds this. Incororating Sony's WEGA technology, the picture is exceptionally good for a "basic" 50hz television, and coupled with a DVD player the effect is simply stunning. The set is catered for in the sound department with a simple Nicam setup which although not particularly technologically advanced, is effective none the less. If you're really looking for a Pro-Logic set, Sony also manufacture the KV28FS20 which is identical in every way except that it has a Dolby Pro-Logic setup in preference to it's Nicam equivalent. In summary, the FX20 is a fantastic set, though if you can afford the 100hz set then you will obviously reap the benefits (the KV28FX60). If you're looking to...

kelvinpapp 29.01.2001 · Read review
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21st Century Breakdown

Advantages: Great Tracks
Disadvantages: None?

...21st Century Breakdown is Green Day's 11th album and was released this year (2009), if you are a fan of the alternative/punk rock band who is also famous for songs such as American Idiot and Basket Case, you will probably be pleased with this album, as it is quite similar though still new and different when compared to their other albums. You can buy 21st Century Breakdown in most good music stores for around £10 to £15 though if you searched online, also if you have a free Spotify account you can listen to it online for free. The track listing for 21st Century Breakdown is as follows: 1.) Song Of The Century 2.) 21st Century Breakdown 3.) Know Your Enemy 4.) Viva La Gloria 5.) Before The Lobotomy 6.) Christian's Inferno 7.) Last Night On Earth 8.) East Jesus Nowhere 9.) Peacemaker 10.) Last Of The American...

lorrainek90 24.07.2009 · Read review
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Kenwood Series 21 (Concept) System

Advantages: As described in body of review.
Disadvantages: As described in body of review.

...became broken? not that this has ever happened. Traditionally separates systems have been for the true audiophile, an auditory perfectionist looking for the ability to replace individual components as they become outdated by newer technology. Well, the Series 21 traversed this philosophy by incorporating top-of-the-range equipment without the need to ever purchase an upgrade. The system was also built with "control cables" for connection to reduce the number of physical cables allowing even a hifi virgin to connect the components and get the system functional within minutes. Kenwood pushed everything into the Concept Series 21 to make it 'future-proof' - voice activation, Dolby? noise reduction, DVD/CD/VCD/MD/CD-RW playback, and the experimental SRS surround circle technology that converts a stereo source (e.g. FM radio) into surround...

N3WB0Y 15.10.2008 (21.09.2009) · Read review
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Oops - talk21 is still rubbish

Advantages: It's free
Disadvantages: Bad performance, design, bugs, adverts

...UPDATE Please note that since writing this review Talk21 has been scrapped and users moved onto Yahoo so this review no longer applies but remains for historic curiosity. ---- talk21 is the free email service provided by British Telecom. There are many things to dislike BT for and this is no exception. I registered for talk21 about 5 years ago when there was not a lot of choice of free email services. I chose talk21 simply because at that time I could get a good email address (rather than the fredbloggs1234567 you would have had to have at hotmail or yahoo). However I don't know if this is the case any more now that there are a lot more people signed up. I have used it for all of this time but recently abandoned it because it was becoming too annoying. Over the years it has hardly been improved at all. The only reason I stuck...

buzios 31.01.2003 · Read review
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