It's 1995 and Martin Scorsese releases Casino. Having already a string of movies many consider to be among best ever made, Casino had alot to live up too. Goodfellas in 1990 was his nearest success (however he did release Cape Feare in 91) and Goodfellas to this day remains his highest rated film on IMDB (not that thats much to go by). Teaming again and so far, for final time, Robert De Niro, Casino is story of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein who is mainly a small time crook trying to conquer Vegas. However he has baggage, his old friend Nicky Santoro played by Joe Pesci. Soon Nicky causes trouble with his methords of dealing with people who get out of line and is banned from all casinos in vegas and this affects Sam's reputation. Sam in meantime falls for a hustler, Ginger. Ginger however is still in love with her fomer boyfriend and pimp Lester Diamond. So Sam has to deal with all this well at same time trying to stay on good side of vegas' elite.
This is as you'd expect a pretty brutal film. a couple of torture scenes involving those who won bit too much for casinos liking, as they are very old school way of working. It's a fantastic film, long but never feels too long. The "friendship" between Nicky and Sam is played out so well, included a great scene where he meets him in the deserts of vegas to basically say "shape up or leave" cus he was ruining him at the time. Sharon stone who plays Ginger is great, however that story does get repetative. She's always leaving then comming back and he just accepts it, several times. However thats only point i can think that i didn't like. Some say "its just goodfellas, in vegas." sure, it probably is, but, if it ain't broke why fix it ? It does have narration like goodfellas aswell but i found this narration to be better. its more lighthearted, especially at the beginning. Actually for first 15 mins is basically 90% narration, it slowly gets less and less, but you don't notice it.
its a great film, maybe not quite goodfellas, but not far off.
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