March 13 movie: 21. I watched this because I had read the book. Bringing Down the House, a nonfiction story about a group of MIT students who developed a blackjack card-counting scheme and made millions in Vegas, until the casinos caught on and everything went all pear shaped.
Well, the movie was pretty incoherent. Having read the book I found that the movie made no sense, because nothing (the table games, the card counting scheme, the security company) worked right. It wasn't just different in the movie; it was changed in a way that made it make no sense. And I think that if I hadn't read the book, the movie would have made no sense because they do such a bad job of explaining everything. Really, if you didn't already understand the card-counting scheme you would never get it from this movie.
The only thing the movie did well was lots of good footage of Vegas. That's always fun.
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