A great, great movie

Rating: 10/10 (29 June 2003)

Casino is one of my all time favorite movies. The narration is great, the music is wonderful, everything is just great. The movie always gets back to the point. Goodfellas showed us that real gangsters weren't about "whacking" everyone; it's about making money. Casino shows us the same thing, all the lights, all the comps, it's all been arranged just for us to get YOUR money. Even much later in the movie Nicky remarks, "The f*%ckn' bottom line here is, cash". The music in the movie is so fantastically placed that the movie begins to resemble a musical in some points.
A few things I have always wondered: 1) Why oh why isn't this movie on the top 250 list??? 2) Why are the names changed form the book?
In goodfellas, the names are the same. Henry Hill is Henry Hill. In Casino (the book) Sam "Ace" is actually Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal (If I remember correctly).
This is such a great movie. The pace is so fast and the dialogue and narration are so tight that all 3 hours just roll by without notice.
Probably my favorite thing about this movie is that it has major replay value. It isn't a rental. I can watch this movie a few times a month or even in a week. Some movies get stale after one or a few viewings. I feel that all of M Knight's (Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs) movies fall into that category. They're great movies, but you just can't watch them over and over. Casino is one of those special few that you can pop on and enjoy, not just fall asleep to.