Goodfellas 2.0

Rating: 9/10 (7 February 2015)

If you've seen GoodFellas, chances are, you don't really need to see Casino. But it's a masterpiece, nonetheless, so why not? It stands as one of Scorsese's longest movies, only beaten by "The Wolf of Wall Street". But just like "Wolf", this movie will leave you on the edge of your seat, for a whopping 3 hours, never losing it's intensity for a second. Scorsese might be the only director in history to sustain such rapid fire, intense power on screen for that long. It's classic DeNiro and Pesci, enough said. The real unique gem of a performance in this movie belongs to Sharon Stone. She's plays a character about as despicable as the mobsters themselves, and fascinatingly enough, you'll tend to root against her. It's Scorsese's oldest tactic, which is to make you interested in awful people, and perhaps seeing the traits of them that are overlooked. Casino isn't Scorsese's best film, but it is a truly memorable, and watchable one.