'Casino' is an adaptation of the novel 'Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas' from author Nicholas Pileggi and tells the story of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, a low-level criminal who is hired by the Gaming Commission to run the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas and is accompanied by enforcer Nicky Santoro who act as his protection. We know, we know.Hey there! Back today with yet another review and today it's for a Martin Scorsese gem that doesn't get the love it quite deserves as one of his all-time best. Microcosm of American capitalism at its most rapacious. After MEAN STREETS, GOODFELLAS, THE GODFATHER and countless other examinations of Mafia mores and morals, we don't need to be reminded that the mob-run gambling industry is a Nevertheless, CASINO feels disturbingly predictable, a meticulous and coldly proficient going-over of familiar ground. With such delirious viciousness that you almost forget what a dreary cliche it is. In fact, there are lots of things right with it: the city in the desert has seldom looked so thrillingly sleazy (the grotesquerie of '70s fashions is a delightfully horrifying bonus), and the story delivers its old-fashioned moral (you reap what you sow) There's nothing really wrong with CASINO. The third point of an ultimately deadly triangle is Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone) a hooker with a heart of, well.

The serpent in this tawdry Garden of Eden soon appears in the form of Ace's old friend Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), whoīegins busting heads and drawing unwanted attention to the Mafia's pervasive presence. Of pre-theme park Vegas, the money-making machine and morality car wash, where the cash flow never dries up and acts that would be criminal anywhere else are the coin of the realm. Looking to get their piece of booming 1960s Las Vegas, the Kansas City Mafia installs him as manager of the Tangiers, where he lives up to his respectful but unaffectionate nickname, 'The Golden Jew.' The film's first third is a celebration

Martin Scorsese returns to the gangster milieu of GOODFELLAS, and the result is an accomplished film that carries with it the unshakable feeling that we've seen it all before.Īce Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is a scientific gambler.

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