One of his best

Rating: 10/10 (29 August 2007)

Martin Scorsese is a director who keeps on delivering every time. This is a movie set in 1970s Las Vegas and involves Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro) a man who is given a casino job. His reflections on Las Vegas are timeless like when he compares it to Disneyland. His life is constantly ruined as well. His old friend Nicky (the brilliant Joe Pesci) is a violent psychopath who makes his mark in Las Vegas as Ace's muscle and as a complete madman. His most violent escapade includes stabbing a man to death with a pen. Nasty Stuff. He ends up betraying Ace by making love to his wife. He dies in a cornfield with his brother. The love in Ace's life is a prostitute by the name of Ginger Mckenna (Sharon Stone in a brilliant role). She constantly betrays Ace by trying to steal their daughter and leaving with her boyfriend Lester (James Woods). They leave each other and she dies a loner and a addict. All these elements screw his life up and his casino is demolished he returns to his old job as a sports handicapper. All in all a great movie but not Martins best