Usual Scorsese

Rating: 8/10 (3 December 2005)

Martin Scorsese is one of our finest directors and Casino may not be one of his best films such as Taxi Driver or the very similar Goodfellas, or his worst such as the horrible mess called Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, and instead comes about at the level of The Aviator and maybe Age of Innocence. Scorsese has a fascination with the mafia and there is a lot you could say about the mafia, unfortunately most of it wouldn't work for a Hollywood film so he keeps telling practically the same story over and over again which is unfortunate. So once again we see this cool mob man played by Robert De Niro in a superb performance who is well standing in the community, and than we have his boy-hood friend the psychotic played by Joe Pesci who once again deserves and Oscar, and well we go from there. The film is masterfully written, acted and directed with very nice visual effects but is to familiar and long to be very engaging.