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| Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam “Ace” Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. (It’s modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi’s true crime book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon Stone is the stand out among the actors; she nabbed an Oscar nomination for her role as the voracious Ginger, the glitzy call girl who becomes Rothstein’s wife. The film is not as fast paced or gripping as Scorsese’s earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and GoodFellas), but it’s still absorbing. And, hey–it’s Scorsese! (Additional note: the digital video disc has a “layer switch,” allowing you to watch the entire film without interruption.) –Jim Emerson
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Summary: LOVE IT!
Comment: i looooooove this movie. Bob DeNiro is SO good in it. and Joe Pesci too. and of course especially Sharon Stone. wow, didn’t realize she could act until i saw this. amazing acting. even down to the extras its good acting. it feels so real. and this movie has my all time fave scene; when Sam sees Ginger for the first time, and Mickey and Sylvia’s “Love is strange” song comes on, and Gin makes a scene, throwing chips, and Sam, who can obviously stop and throw her out doesn’t, but just stares mesmerized at her. and she know she’s got him. she leaves looking at him and laughing. that scene is SO SEXY. this movie also has some good, old time songs. Scorcese really took his time to make this. but major WARNING: seriously, it’s NOT FOR KIDS. even i can’t watch manyo its scenes they are so realistic and gruesome. that’s the only thing that i don’t like about it, that it’s violence makes it unwatchable some times. but isn’t that still good b/c it shows what great acting it is?! if u don’t watch this u haven’t watched a real movie. one of the bset movies ever made!
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Summary: Gambling in the desert
Comment: Great performances by all-star cast. Martin Scorsese shows why he’s the best action director in the business. Diniro, Sharon Stone and James Woods are the imperfect love triangle. And Pesci is Pesci. Must see mob movie.
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Summary: an awful and exagerrated pastiche from Scorsese’s better films
Comment: I was shocked at the crudeness of this film: it is like Scorsese took the best moments from a number of his films and strung them together to make a thriller about some horrible thugs: a guy gets his head put into a vice for cheating, Sharon Stone is too beautiful to fit in, Pesci gets it in a car, etc. It just didn’t hang together, the story felt flat, and there was little smoothness to the narrative flow. This is Scorsese’s worst by far.
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Summary: Scorsese has done it again!!!!
Comment: Italian-American film director Martin Scorsese presents his audience with perhaps his most brutal and telling tale of mobster confab. What is often described as a long-awaited sequel to Goodfellas, CASINO rolls in as perhaps his greatest achievement. A story of love, lust, jealousy, luck, power and control.. all the basic elements of the tragic rise-and-fall existence of Mafia brutes. Robert De Niro gives his ultimance performance as Sam “Ace” Rothstein, a high-stakes gambler with mob connections who aspires to the throne of Las Vegas’ most glamourous and respected businessman. After a long life of rackets, he finally seeks salvation in The Tangiers Hotel and Casino where he is heralded as king. He is about to achieve his life-long goal of fame, fortune and family until boyhood friend and mobster Nicky Santoro (played to stellar effect by fast-talking Joe Pesci) and beloved wife Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone) create havoc and begin making headlines. Now, Rothstein must risk his own dignity to placate his family ties and continue forward. Eventually, he finds his empire collapsing under a steady stream of drugs, violence and infidelity. After years of self-destructive behavior, Nicky and Ginger pay the ultimate price, while Rothstein is reduced to a self-loathing individual who had everything to gain only to lose it all with a throw of the dice. A tragic and unbelievably true story of fame, power and riches and the sacrifices that are inherent to it. A MUST-BUY!!!!!
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Summary: GREAT 5 STAR MOVIE BUT……… THE DVD IS DEFECTIVE! 1 STAR 
Comment: I love this movie! The problem is I have a very expensive DVD player and this movie freezes about two hours into it! I play it in one of my cheapo players and it works fine. They need to fix this problem by letting everyone return it for a nice new 15th anniversay edition! I have read numerous complaints about this problem and it is inexcusable!
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