Casino was and still is a great Gangster movie

Rating: 8/10 (3 May 2006)

Yet another gangster film in the same flavor as Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese show's us the ups and the downs of gangster life from Kansas City to Las Vegas and back again. The film is Casino, based in Las Vegas in the Seventies, the original Sin City, we are now presented with the dirt of the Vegas underworld that often isn't even seen in the pit rows of the casino halls. I enjoyed Robert De Niro, (Sam "Ace" Rothstein) a professional gambler selected by the mob to run the biggest casino in town. You really start to believe Ace as a real business man looking to run a straight and clean establishment. Things seem to be going his way until his childhood friend, the wacky and crazy Nicky Santoro(Joe Pesci) turns up with his own very different agenda, of how he is going to run things for himself and thus the mob bosses in Vegas Gangster movies remain to be cool and I can watch them over and over again and I look for the next one to be a little more modern day to see how things have changed over the last 10 years. Casino is a well directed, acted and edited masterpiece, which does a great job telling the story of 2 friends that in the end don't quit see things eye to eye.