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Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2002)

This film is brilliant, it really is. It is underated and overshadowed by its predessesor 'Goodfellas'. Martin Scorsese really is the master of gangster movies, no doubt about it, yet the novelist Nicholas Pileggi deserves kudos too. People say this movie tries to hard to be like Goodfellas and I think thats a terrible description. The reason for this I think is that Joe Pesci's Nicky is too much the same character as his Tommy in Goodfellas. If they had of put someone else in that role, possibly Benicio DelToro or an Edward Norton with an Italian makeover, then Casino would have gotten more individual praise. To me, this film is on equal par with Goodfellas. Well done again Scorsese & Pileggi.