I liked it a lot.

Rating: 7/10 (1 October 2008)

Casino was a cool movie. I liked it because it didn't follow traditional lines of storytelling. It's almost like director Martin Scorsese keeps wanting to make "non-poetic" gangster movies as a rebuke to the Godfather. perhaps not. But his gangster movies are always "realer". And less likable. All the more reason as to why I enjoyed this movie very much.
Dinero as usual gives and outstanding performance. As do Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone and James Woods. Don Rickles steals the movie. There is great tragedy on this comic's face. The Voice Over narration works well in this movie and I was interested in it all the way through. The songs also kept me interested. Where do they get all of these old songs? it was really great. The editing and pacing kept it moving very fast, but not so fast that you couldn't easily follow the story line.
It's violent, sou you would want to warn any youngsters before you watch it with them.