Review

Rating: 9/10 (17 October 2007)

I recently won a copy of this movie from www.getminted.com - I had seen it years ago at the movies.
Unfortunately Casino will inevitably bear comparison with Goodfellas, so it only makes nine stars in my humble opinion. The reason this is especially true when De Niro and Pesci are ideally placed for comparison between both movies and they were better in Goodfellas.
With this in mind, the acting is generally excellent even though the characters are pretty unlovable ones.
No one in the entire story has any good qualities to speak of, which tends to distance the audience from them.
The story itself is weak and a tad extended, stretching (as it does) a 2-hour story into a 3-hour epic.