pesci and de niro prove they are one of hollywoods great double -teams

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 1998)

Robert de niro , joe pesci and even frank vincent turn out together in another movie following the highly under-publicised (though not underrated) raging bull, and goodfellas. They are put on the Las Vegas stage with beautiful precision by the best director never to win an Oscar, Marty Scorcese. This time Sharon Stone joins in this tough, violent and very foul-mouthed gangster movie, plotting the fortunes and eventual misfortunes of a Casino manager (de niro), his mob friend (pesci), and Ginger, a Vegas hustler (Stone).
Despite being about forty minutes too long, this film is a superb mix of scorceses documentary style on how the casino never loses money (if only I'd known that before going to Vegas!!), and how Stone literally sent the two main men in Vegas (de niro and pesci)to failure.
Although probably not as well flowing as Goodfellas, Casino has many of its own qualities. The music is superb, the subtleties in the script very impresive on about the third viewing, and the violence more bloody and horrific than I have seen in most Hollywood mainstream titles.
As much as I love Scorcese gangster films having marvelled over this particular one, and of course Goodfellas (forgetting the slightly disappointing and amateurish Mean Streets) I hope this does not end the partnerships of the actors and director in movies. Note how without De Niro or Scorcese, Pesci has failed to play a very serious (main charachter) role in a blockbuster Hollywood movie!!