Casino, Ca-seen-it

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2001)

This movie was better when it was called GoodFellas. Now since Scorsese is such a great director, I figured it would be a good gangster drama, but it was really just a flashier, longer, gorier, dryer version of GoodFellas. Now GoodFellas is my #3 movie, and I guess that I would have liked this film had it had more originality.
James Woods and Sharon Stone did a great job in this film, Stone was a very convincing junky, as was Woods. As for De Niro and Pecsi, they've done this sort of thing before. I guess that if my expectations weren't so high for this movie I would have enjoyed it more, because a good deal of the time I enjoy no-brainer action movies, but I was hoping for a good movie, which turned out to be a regurgitated and much less plausible version of Scorsese's classic film.
But it's not all that bad of a film, I mean the flashy images of Las Vegas and the casinos were well shot, and some of the dialogue was good, but I didn't keep me interested for 3 hours. 5/10