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21Director: Robert LuketicCast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Aaron Yoo, Josh Gad(Columbia Pictures, 2008) Rated: PG-13 US theatrical release date: 28 March 2008 (General release) UK theatrical release date: 11 April 2008 (General release) [28 March 2008] by Cynthia FuchsPopMatters Film and TV Editor Chicken DinnerEven if card counting is legal, this gangster-style brutality plainly cannot be, yet it provides long minutes of hackneyed menace, a B-movie plot point that only underlines 21's unoriginality.
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