Good mob movie with a lifetime movie thrown in the middle

Rating: 8/10 (11 April 2009)

First 1.5 hours and last .5 hours are a solid mob movie with good story and acting. I'm not always the fan of these movies, but with history as a back drop, it's interesting in Casino. Well produced, interesting, multiple points of view, some insights into how Vegas worked before the corporations took over.
Then there's that one hour which is a melodramatic piece of junk with Sharon Stone over acting, DeNiro under acting, Joe Pesci being Joe Pesci, and a lot of divorce and relationship garbage that nobody cares about. Are the story points necessary for the film? Maybe. But they could have been handled in 5 minutes of scenes, not an hour of blech. I don't know what Marty was thinking here, but it keeps this movie from being one of the better films of all time. It's not something you can watch over and over because of this shortcoming. Well, I suppose you can just skip that whole hour...