Better than Goodfellas

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2003)

I honestly cannot believe that Goodfellas is seen as Scorcese's best film, Yes of course it is a classic, that I am not disputing but surely Casino should be heralded higher than Goodfellas.Firstly, Casino is a far more ambitious and therefore more difficult movie to pull off than Goodfellas.Yes Goodfellas is ambitious, it follows the entire true life story of a Gangster, but Casino tries to analyse in detail the entire inner most workings of a money spinning empire and its downfall during the early 1970s. Secondly,the plot is more complex as a result. It interweaves the lifes of gangsters, professional gamblers, pimps into the corrupt day to day workings of a las vegas casino and thirdly the ending has far more conclusion to it than goodfellas.Yes Goodfellas has a better Soundtrack but casino has epic classical music which symbolises this idea of extreme power, the casino being a form of heaven and the casino manager(Robert Deniro)playing a metaphorical god.It is certainly underrated and certainly should be placed higher up in a pedastool.Believe me this film is stunning, this film is a classic and this film is the best of all gangster films. Believe me it works!Watch it now!!!