History Film / TwentyOne

Features supporting turns from Kevin Spacey as their maths professor, whose approach to things is '''''WRONG'''''[[hottip:*: OK, that's the obligatory ''{{Superman}}'' joke done)]] and Laurence Fishburne as a casino security officer.

* Fakin MacGuffin: With the casino chips in the climax.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Cole Williams, the casino security chief. He harasses the team, is shown beating people he has caught, and at the end steals millions from the protagonist and completely gets away with it. For the record Ben is a remarkably good sport about it, even hinting that Williams even deserves to retire comfortably (something he would never be able to do working for the casino).]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Cole Williams, the casino security chief. He harasses the team, is shown beating people he has caught, and at the end steals millions from the protagonist and completely gets away with it.]]

* Adorkable: Ben. He's painfully shy, timid, and naive as well as very good looking.

* GameShowProblem: And not the one where a GameShow occupies this title in the Main space...

Features supporting turns from Kevin Spacey as their maths professor, whose approach to things is WRONG (OK, that's the obligatory ''{{Superman}}'' joke done) and Laurence Fishburne as a casino security officer.

** Part of the reason the [=MIT=] crew even got away with the scheme was because they were GenreSavvy enough to know that the House would dismiss their gaming strategy on them being AsianAndNerdy, a fact that is lost on most of the cast having their races being shuffled.
*** Still, having the only two Asians in the team reduced to a kleptomaniac and an AsianAirhead is pretty insulting.
*** She was clearly ObfuscatingStupidity

** Seeing as the stereotype that Asians are good at math and nerdy this is arguably reasonable.
*** Part of the reason the [=MIT=] crew even got away with the scheme was because they were GenreSavvy enough to know that the House would dismiss their gaming strategy on them being AsianAndNerdy, a fact that is lost on most of the cast having their races being shuffled.
**** Still, having the only two Asians in the team reduced to a kleptomaniac and an AsianAirhead is pretty insulting.
**** She was clearly ObfuscatingStupidity

* FridgeLogic: The movie portrays card counting as extremely difficult, requiring top students from MIT. But if you've the attention span to sit through the movie you can learn just about everything you NEED to know to start counting cards. Ben Campbell seems to be studying day and night for at least a few weeks to learn what you can get the gist of in about 15-30 minutes. Also, if Ben Campbell is so smart and is reading books about card counting how come he doesn't know the dangers?
** As I understood it, most of his studying time was to understand and perfect the team's convoluted communication system.
** The principle is indeed easy to understand, but try doing this without making mistakes for several hours. This is a job for people GoodWithNumbers.
** True, but in the case of card counting being GoodWithNumbers does not amount to complex math, just very rigorous and quick mental arithmatic. Mind you, some of the more advanced techniques that were used by the real MIT team (such as ace tracking) are a lot more complex than the basic high-low running count

* InternetBackdraft: Sites including "boycott21.com" popped up in the aftermath of the "whitewash casting" controversy.

* WallBanger: See above. WHY DID THEY KEEP GOING TO THE SAME FRIGGIN' CASINO?
** [[FridgeLogic It was one of the only ones]] that didn't have facial recognition technology installed in their security cameras. By the end of the film, it was the ''only'' one, and even that one will have it soon, explaining why Professor Spacey is willing to go for the last big score in the one casino in Vegas with a guard holding a grudge against him.

* HeyItsThatGuy: You know you have problems when your professor is [[SupermanReturns Lex Luthor]]. But the fact that your classmate is Lois Lane helps matters a little. Also, [[TheMatrix Morpheus]] is out to get you! Jerry from ''RescueMe'' also has a supporting role.

* HeyItsThatGuy: You know you have problems when your professor is [[SupermanReturns Lex Luthor]]. But the fact that your classmate is Lois Lane helps matters a little. And you yourself will play SpiderMan in a [[TheMusical stage musical adaptation]]. Also, [[TheMatrix Morpheus]] is out to get you! Jerry from ''RescueMe'' also has a supporting role.

-->Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!

Features Kevin Spacey as their maths professor, whose approach to things is WRONG! (OK, that's the obligatory ''{{Superman}}'' joke done.)

* GameShowProblem (And not the one where a GameShow occupies this title in the Main space...)
* FridgeLogic (The movie portrays card counting as extremely difficult, requiring top students from MIT. But if you've the attention span to sit through the movie you can learn just about everything you NEED to know to start counting cards. Ben Campbell seems to be studying day and night for at least a few weeks to learn what you can get the gist of in about 15-30 minutes. Also, if Ben Campbell is so smart and is reading books about card counting how come he doesn't know the dangers?)

* HeyItsThatGuy: You know you have problems when your professor is [[SupermanReturns Lex Luthor]]. But the fact that your classmate is Lois Lane helps matters a little. And you yourself will play SpiderMan in a [[TheMusical stage musical adaptation]]. Also, [[TheMatrix Morpheus]] is out to get you!
* HollywoodNerd (most of the cast, but especially Kate Bosworth's character)

* RaceLift (in both RealLife and the book, most of the team was asian, but all but 2 are white in the movie) Never mind the Black guy who was there in real life.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory (the movie, as well as the book)
* {{Viva Las Vegas}} In the book and real life they move around a lot, going to every place they can to avoid getting caught.
* WallBanger See above. WHY DID THEY KEEP GOING TO THE SAME FRIGGIN' CASINO?

* RaceLift (in both RealLife and the book, most of the team was asian, but all but 2 are white in the movie) Never mind the Black guy who was there in real life.