One of the best movies ever made

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2005)

Casino is easily one of the best movies ever made. However, because it shares similar style with the earlier Goodfellas, Casino tends to be dismissed as Goodfellas II, even though it is easily the more perfected one of these two. It also appears that people, who are not familiar with Las Vegas, don't seem to quite get it.
Goodfellas was great, but it was still fundamentally a regular mafia story, and there are tons of those around. In contrast, Casino delivers an interesting and unique twist, because it is set in Las Vegas which is special in this context. Add the superb acting performances and ingenious direction, and we are talking about an uncovered diamond.
Casino is one of those movies that will either increase in value over the years, or become lost and then rediscovered by a new generation of movie buffs who will then be puzzled why this gem was missed by the contemporaries...