21- . Like most greed based plots depicted in innumerable Vegas centered movies and books, the movie goes on expected lines with some minor change of backdrop.The story revolves around a group of youngsters of MIT who are supposedly smart and good at number crunching ( ! ) . The script is so totally obsessed with Casinos in Vegas and Black Jack in particular that one tends to completely forget that there are banks and financial institutions too in this world which can lend loans to credible 4 plus GDPA smart pants from MIT !!! So our poor poor hero who got everything else in life except money is desperate to get into Harvard Medical and the only thing stopping him is three hundred thousand dollars ! ( give me a break, the kid hasn't heard of education loans and he is in MIT ? ) . Anyway Ben, our poor hero, is noticed in the classroom by a crafty math Prof ( Kevin Spacey ) who quickly invites the guy to join his group which usually spends its weekends flying to Vegas and making money basically playing black jack. So here's what we got - this professional team who supposedly use their number crunching ability , word codes, body signs and some other glam sham tricks apart from probability to keep winning and stay unnoticed. ( I always thought playing cards is all about having a great memory and ability to read body language and conceal ones own ..anway..its all about math it seems ..we are told ) . So the wonderful smart team with two chinkis and two Americans ( and a perfect male / female ratio ) led by the maverick math prof goes from success to success until one drunken moment of Ben ruins it all. The second half shows him recovering from the situation he digs himself into. Anyway, the depiction of glamor, greed and the power of money keeps the audience mood upbeat. Of course the backdrop of Harvard and MIT tends to add some awe and the contrast of Vegas makes the movie interesting . However, I couldn't somehow believe that a MIT grad would save 315,000 dollars in a false ceiling when they could use few of their brain cells to beat thru Anti Money Laundering and easily come up with proxy accounts to save that money and earn some interest on it ( watch Shawshank Redemption, That's 'based' on a real story too ! ) . Guess for an MIT grad, beating the banking rules is as simple as getting a casino down. Well if you doubt that, look beyond Mezrich ;) .Anyway considering all my respect and love for MIT and Harvard institutions and Mezrich and Vegas , I would surely rate the movie gud :)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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21- . Like most greed based plots depicted in innumerable Vegas centered movies and books, the movie goes on expected lines with some minor change of backdrop.The story revolves around a group of youngsters of MIT who are supposedly smart and good at number crunching ( ! ) . The script is so totally obsessed with Casinos in Vegas and Black Jack in particular that one tends to completely forget that there are banks and financial institutions too in this world which can lend loans to credible 4 plus GDPA smart pants from MIT !!! So our poor poor hero who got everything else in life except money is desperate to get into Harvard Medical and the only thing stopping him is three hundred thousand dollars ! ( give me a break, the kid hasn't heard of education loans and he is in MIT ? ) . Anyway Ben, our poor hero, is noticed in the classroom by a crafty math Prof ( Kevin Spacey ) who quickly invites the guy to join his group which usually spends its weekends flying to Vegas and making money basically playing black jack. So here's what we got - this professional team who supposedly use their number crunching ability , word codes, body signs and some other glam sham tricks apart from probability to keep winning and stay unnoticed. ( I always thought playing cards is all about having a great memory and ability to read body language and conceal ones own ..anway..its all about math it seems ..we are told ) . So the wonderful smart team with two chinkis and two Americans ( and a perfect male / female ratio ) led by the maverick math prof goes from success to success until one drunken moment of Ben ruins it all. The second half shows him recovering from the situation he digs himself into. Anyway, the depiction of glamor, greed and the power of money keeps the audience mood upbeat. Of course the backdrop of Harvard and MIT tends to add some awe and the contrast of Vegas makes the movie interesting . However, I couldn't somehow believe that a MIT grad would save 315,000 dollars in a false ceiling when they could use few of their brain cells to beat thru Anti Money Laundering and easily come up with proxy accounts to save that money and earn some interest on it ( watch Shawshank Redemption, That's 'based' on a real story too ! ) . Guess for an MIT grad, beating the banking rules is as simple as getting a casino down. Well if you doubt that, look beyond Mezrich ;) .Anyway considering all my respect and love for MIT and Harvard institutions and Mezrich and Vegas , I would surely rate the movie gud :)
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