This film evokes several images from Raging Bull and Good Fellas. Golden Globes ’96: Actress-Drama (Stone). Casino movie is like any other Martin Scorsese film, except it takes place in Las Vegas.
Jones, Dick Smothers, John (Joe Bob Briggs) Bloom, Frankie Avalon, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jerry Vale D: Martin Scorsese W: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese C: Robert Richardson. Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, L.Q. Pileggi again adapted the screenplay from his own book. Although Stone shines as a hedonistic money chaser, visuals are great and the soundtrack is a killer, storyline suffers from deja vu. At first, he’s a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester. In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster Sam Ace Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. Flashy, intricate, and unflinchingly violent account of mob-run ’70s Vegas clicks when exploring the inner workings of a major casino and its hierarchy. Casino (1995) 3316 votes, average 8.0 out of 10.
Final part of the Scorsese underworld crime trilogy that began with “Mean Streets” and continued in “GoodFellas.” Casino boss Sam “Ace” Rothstein (De Niro), his ex-hustler wife Ginger (Stone), and his loose-cannon enforcer pal Nicky (Pesci) are the principals in this lengthy, fictionalized account of how the mob lost Las Vegas in a haze of drugs, sex, coincidence, and betrayal.
