Goodfellas remake????

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 1999)

Now I've seen a lot of films. And I have seen a lot of gangster films. But Casino...what can I say. I've heard people say that this was simply Scorcese's attempt to remake Goodfellas in a different part of America. I would say that while the idea behind it is the same, this has a very different feel to it. Goodfellas was pure gangster stuff. It was Liotta's "Hey, this is a cool life" description of how everything happened. Casino was more "How we f***ed everything up" from the view of the cool De Niro. Scorcese simply used a winning formula, his usual winning cast and his usual classy soundtrack technique to put together what is the most absorbing film I have ever seen. It may be very complicated to understand how the 'skims' work and which boss is which, but that's unnecessary. The harrowing scenes with Pesci remain in the mind and De Niro's ice cold reactions as Stone falls apart make this a brilliant film. Watch it. Watch it again. And I promise you, you will not be disappointed.