My favorite American film of the 90's

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2000)

This film is not only a great character study on the wiseguys that oversaw the mob's grip on Vegas, it also brilliantly documents how the mob "skimmed" the casinos; and how too much ambition, political negligence and a beautiful woman can bring extreme friction to the best oiled machines.
My favorite scenes are Sharon Stone's entrance scene (DeNiro doesn't even move, he just stares) and the very end when they show the new Vegas. Scorsese is a film poet, maybe the film poet. Casino is his vastly underrated epic poem on greed, efficiency, resentment, inhumanity, femme fatales and those holes in the desert.