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Casino (1995)
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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...
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Casino Movie Review by Jarrod  (5/19/2008) |
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'Casino' was one of the last great mob movies, and ended Martin Scorsese's cycle of mob films, which started with Mean Streets back in 1973, and reached its second chapter in Goodfellas, now De Niro and Pesci are back (in their third pairing) in a remarkably fierce and brutal crime drama. 'Casino' looks and feels a lot...
(complete Casino review by Jarrod)
| Casino Movie Review by Jacob (3/15/2007) |
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Apparently this is one of the forgotten Scorsese movies. I was surprised to find nobody had really reviewed it.
I find that not many people have seen this movie and it's a shame because it is a really great movie. One of Scorsese's best. It is also a best for Joe Pesci, granted the man has done few movies but I really like...
(complete Casino review by Jacob)
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