Scorsese's Vegas connection.

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2004)

This is like the "Good Fellas" came to Las Vegas and not all the crowd followed them. Coppola, Scorsese and Darabont-you expect brilliant dialog, narration and direction. Casino, is another masterpiece with Las Vegas connection by Scorsese. The narration has no depth as in "Good Fellas". Sharon Stone looks stunning and probably the beginning of her typecasting in movies. She plays the drug addict to the hilt. The movie is very close to the Vegas that existed in the Sixties and Seventies. Ace Rothstein's attorney portrayed by Oscar Goodman is now the current Mayor of Las Vegas. The movie is incredibly gripping with great acting that has tradionally expected from a Scorese film, but the Casting will never be like the "Good Fellas".The movie takes off where the masterpiece "Bugsy" left-off when it comes to the Las Vegas history. The scene where the brothers are done away with is gorily authentic you see only in Scorsese movies. Scorsese will be nominee for "Aviator"-it is time he gets an Oscar but it does't mean a thing if he does't since he is unofficially the best Director in North America.