Enjoyable from start to finish.

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2020)

This is Robert De Niro's shining moment. Casino is more than a character study of someone running a Las Vegas casino. Casino captures the rise and fall of mob-controlled Vegas. It captures how lack of control, and later, overcontrol led the mob to destroy their golden goose. Casino, in short, is the story of Las Vegas becoming what we know it as today. The based-on-a-true-story format works well here. The action is believable and the times-of-the-era feel is well done.