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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: While you may stick with the film -- it's a slick time-waster -- you never believe it. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: 21 doesn't quite hit the jackpot, but with popcorn it should satisfy. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Greed is good and comes without a hint of conscience in 21, a feature-length bore about some smarty-pants who take Vegas for a ride. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The students are so blandly written this never builds any suspense, though it probably has some value as an empowerment fantasy for debt-ridden collegians. Read more
Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal: A none-too-winning blend of the unsettling and the unsurprising. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Before sinking into a predictable morality tale, 21 coasts on the superficial thrill of watching casinos take a few hits, but gamblers looking for a how-to lesson on winning in Vegas will be putting their pencils down pretty quickly. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: By the time the end credits roll around, you realize nothing's actually been risked. It's the gambling equivalent of Go Fish. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: When the makers of the blackjack drama 21 stepped up to the table to place their bets, they opted to play it safe. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: If only director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb had not opted for glitz. As filmmakers, they're playing for very low stakes. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The film is about a group of MIT students who used a very smart card-counting system to milk the casinos. But the movie blows off the deeper thrills of its source material to make a tidier, less compelling amorality play. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: It's disposable, watchable and forgettable filmmaking for would-be easy millionaires. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: 21 is built around some standard-issue plot mechanics, but it's still a clever and novel card-sharp thriller. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Add it up and, in the game that pits your entertainment dollar against entertainment value, know this: The house wins again. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Like the Strip itself, it's all lights and music throbbing so hard you confuse yourself into thinking you're having fun. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Under Luketic's flaccid direction, 21 is another two-faced moralistic entertainment that shows us how much fun it is to live large, then punishes its characters for acting out our fantasies. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is really Spacey's picture, from the moment he fixes his gaze on Sturgess to the day when he finally, brutally cuts him loose. It's a fun performance, but a quiet one. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There's enough action here to keep you awake, but don't expect to walk away a winner. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The fascinating story of six college students who took Las Vegas for millions gets dealt a bad hand in 21, which turns their true-life saga into a slick, shallow and thoroughly generic caper flick. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The new blackjack dramedy 21 stands when it should hit, never doubles down and wimps out to the point that it turns a pretty compelling tale into a bust. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: 21 makes for some slick escapist fantasy. Even if, and because, the fantasy has its roots in something real. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: While I'm firm believer in the adage 'Never let the truth get in the way of a good story,' 21 doesn't spin a good enough yarn to justify all the changes. Read more
Jim Emerson, Chicago Sun-Times: Inspired by the real-life story of the M.I.T. students who took Las Vegas casinos for millions, 21 has been reshaped to fit a simple movie template -- and it's nearly as much fun as watching an insurance professional compute actuarial tables. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Numerous inane plot twists and a convenient villain whose behavior defies logic or meaning. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A movie with an irresistible premise that ultimately collapses around the whole issue of motivation. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 21 is penny-ante entertainment. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: When Spacey and Fishburne really go at each other, 21 finally starts to add up to something. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: [Director] Luketic and his screenwriters preserve the excitement and a fair amount of the blackjack strategy -- yet somehow the whole exercise plays like a high-tech John Hughes movie. Read more
Time Out: The whizzo-conceit and slick visual bling do give it an undeniably diverting buzz, yet the movie's cautionary formula shows its hand way before the clunky final reel. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: Shrewdly shuffles together attractive young leads, cagey screen vets and a fantasy-fulfillment scenario in a slickly polished package Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: A movie that wastes a lot of time and money and really, really shoulda stayed in Vegas. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's a would-be parable about greed that emptily celebrates it, a drama about gifted people who are one-dimensional voids and, most laughable of all, a story about the giddiness of risk-taking that safely plays everything by the numbers. Read more