Casino (1995)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 178m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Synopsis:
A professional gambler and bookie with mob connections is given stewardship over one of the top Las Vegas casinos, but his association with a volatile childhood friend and marriage to an unstable hustler threaten to destabilise his world and bring the Feds crashing down.
Review:
Scorsese does for Vegas what he did for Little Italy in Goodfellas, even down to the format and style (voiceover narration, a playlist of contemporary hits, impeccably orchestrated sequence shots and flourishes such as freeze frame and extreme close-up). It is impeccably detailed in its narrative of how the city moved out of the hands of the Mafia and into corporate big business, but whether you want to have your nose rubbed into the murky descent of this man's world for nigh on three hours will depend on your taste for this type of thing, especially as it is, like Sunset Boulevard, very much a foregone conclusion, save for one minor detail. The leads, practised as they are, deliver frighteningly real portrayals.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 178m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Synopsis:
A professional gambler and bookie with mob connections is given stewardship over one of the top Las Vegas casinos, but his association with a volatile childhood friend and marriage to an unstable hustler threaten to destabilise his world and bring the Feds crashing down.
Review:
Scorsese does for Vegas what he did for Little Italy in Goodfellas, even down to the format and style (voiceover narration, a playlist of contemporary hits, impeccably orchestrated sequence shots and flourishes such as freeze frame and extreme close-up). It is impeccably detailed in its narrative of how the city moved out of the hands of the Mafia and into corporate big business, but whether you want to have your nose rubbed into the murky descent of this man's world for nigh on three hours will depend on your taste for this type of thing, especially as it is, like Sunset Boulevard, very much a foregone conclusion, save for one minor detail. The leads, practised as they are, deliver frighteningly real portrayals.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 178m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Synopsis:
A professional gambler and bookie with mob connections is given stewardship over one of the top Las Vegas casinos, but his association with a volatile childhood friend and marriage to an unstable hustler threaten to destabilise his world and bring the Feds crashing down.
Review:
Scorsese does for Vegas what he did for Little Italy in Goodfellas, even down to the format and style (voiceover narration, a playlist of contemporary hits, impeccably orchestrated sequence shots and flourishes such as freeze frame and extreme close-up). It is impeccably detailed in its narrative of how the city moved out of the hands of the Mafia and into corporate big business, but whether you want to have your nose rubbed into the murky descent of this man's world for nigh on three hours will depend on your taste for this type of thing, especially as it is, like Sunset Boulevard, very much a foregone conclusion, save for one minor detail. The leads, practised as they are, deliver frighteningly real portrayals.