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Check out a few reviews from 21 if interested, the first batch of reviews I saw weren’t the greated, but some more have been released with the release of the film and some people seem to really enjoy the film. Here some I have selected, particularly complimentary of Jim’s performance.
From: MTV
Jim Sturgess, the young English actor most recently seen in The Other Boleyn Girl and Across the Universe, here deploying an American accent that might draw an approvingly cocked brow from Hugh Laurie himself, has the unusual ability to project contemplation and reticence as star qualities, and his quiet magnetism anchors the movie.
Spacey is also one of the movie’s producers, and it was he who picked Sturgess to star in it. This might be an intergenerational salute from one idiosyncratic actor to another — although Sturgess, if only because of his attractively tousled appeal, would seem likely to have a larger career as a romantic lead lying ahead of him. Like Spacey, though, he has serious technical skills as well, and his performance here is aces.
From: Variety
Sturgess does a first-rate job sustaining the aud’s rooting interest in his character, even though there’s conspicuously little heat to his scenes with the well-cast Bosworth.
From: Entertainment Weekly
These days, a lot of young actors are too attractive, or at least too confidently invested in the powers of their teenybop charisma, to do a convincing job of playing anyone ”normal.” They may look great in tabloid party photographs, but when they’re required to suffer or to show anxiety — that is, when they have to behave like the rest of us — they’re like automatons who’ve been to acting class. They turn imperfection into dull posing.
Jim Sturgess, the star of the college-brainiacs-go-to-Vegas drama 21, is in a different league. It’s not that he isn’t cute. He looks a little like the young Paul McCartney (that must be part of why they cast him in Across the Universe), with a boy heartthrob’s dewy eyes and friendly, puckered grin. In 21, though, he attaches real live nerve endings to that pretty-boy facade.
From: WNYT News 21 may not win big, but it still plays its hand well.
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21 (2008) 
