Almost as Good as Goodfellas

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2003)

I should have not been surprised at how good this film was, since it was directed by Martin Scorsese. Anyways I was reluctant to see this film because some people say its just another Goodfellas or Scorsese is trying to hard to rekindle the magic from his 1990 masterpiece. But this did not disappoint. Robert De Niro gave, in my opinion, his best performance yet and Sharon Stone was great, although psychotic near the end. Now on to Joe Pesci. While he was great in Goodfellas, he was sometimes annoying in Casino. I'm not offended by profanity, but just about every other word out of his mouth is the F word. His performance in Casino was good, but doesn't beat Tommy in Goodfellas.
I give Casino 9/10