Casino

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Summary: One of the greatest movies of all time!
Review: The thing that is so fantastic about this movie is that it is absolutely true! The dialogue is crisp and real, and the acting is great. Most movies are fiction, so when you think that these characters and events are real it brings an added dimension. The cinematography and music will move you, and the sets and costumes are suberb. If you love Las Vegas and mob stories (like I do), you'll be in hog heaven while watching Casino.

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Summary: Good but tiresome
Review: Casino is one of those movies you just have to sit down and absorb. The acting is incredibally believable and DeNiro is great as always. But the movie feels alot longer than it actually is. And when the movie ends you crave so much more. Scarface was a long but appropriately long movie.Goodfellas was also made in this manner. Its long but it moves. Now that doesn't mean I think Casino is as utterly boring as say, Ridley Scott's snoozer, 1492, it is just over long. In the end, it is an enjoyable movie with superb direction by Scorscesse.Worth a rental anyways.

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Summary: Great, I thought it was better than Goodfellas
Review: Marty finally gave us what we want, PESCI!!!!!! This movie is full of Pesci's one-liners, insults, and mob muscle. De Niro and Stone do a great job as well. This movie is superior to Goodfellas(in my mind) because there's more, much more violence and language. I would compare it to Scarface.

BE WARNED! This movie is a lot more graphic than it looks on the outside. There's torture, one scence involving baseball bats that makes me always close my eyes. An Pesci kills an inoccent guy with a pen, funny but brutal. And here's the biggie, 362 f-words!!!

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Summary: A master-piece by definition!
Review: This film is an authentic master-piece of this ending century. The actors on it like Robert de Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci have given at least one of their best performances in their lives. They played their roles so well, that the spectactors believe they are the same in the real world. This is one of the few films, that are so good you wish there will never be a second part, because it just can get worse. The director - Martin Scorsese - deserves a credit. He combined the thrilling story, with a perfect music companion, which suits perfectly to the era of the story. The scenes and the music are just one. Anyone who likes movie should see it, it's a luxury to be allowed to see it.

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Summary: Best Drama Movie Ever!!!!!!!
Review: This movie has got to be the best performance of Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone, and Robert De Niro, especially Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci(Nicky Santaro in Casino) kept me laughing by all the tough talk he issued out to the other people while he continued to a gangster. Robert and Joe are very talented performers and this movie shows it. Go ahead and buy the movie.

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Summary: A great film, but a companion piece nonetheless
Review: Scorsese's second adaptation of a Nicholas Pileggi novel finds the director wallowing in familiar territory. The film comes across as primarily a companion piece to Scorsese's "GoodFellas," a far superior film. Scorsese has seemed to stereotype himself with "Casino," as he once again calls on his two hired guns, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, to headline the cast. De Niro is his usual genius self, and Pesci brings some much needed humor to the production. However, the character of Nicky Santoro seems to be a reprise of Pesci's Oscar-winning portrayal of Tommy DeVito in "GoodFellas." The standout among the cast is Sharon Stone, who gives an Oscar-nominated performance that is so far the defining moment of her career. Forget the shallow and overblown "Basic Instinct"; this is the definitive Stone performance. James Woods, however, almost steals the show as Stone's former boyfriend, a lowlife pimp and hustler who leeches money from her. The cinematography is characteristically good, and the editing is solid enough (if you exclude the scene in which De Niro miraculously starts his car before he's even stepped inside of it). The screenplay by Scorsese and Pileggi, however, relies too much on gangster-film cliches and the incessant use of profanity. While the soundtrack is great, the music is not put to entirely effective use in "Casino." At times it seems that the classic rock and blues tunes nearly drown out the dialogue. Scorsese also relies way too much on his love of the Rolling Stones; he has somehow located countless covers of "Gimme Shelter," which is played in the background throughout many of the scenes (when he used this song in "GoodFellas," it was a little more creative at the time). All in all, though, the film is a solid effort. It is overlong and overindulgent, but the performances are worth watching. Scorsese has since proved that he can direct much better material, however, as he puts aside all of his usual self-constructed cliches (De Niro, Pesci, Rolling Stones, profanity, graphic violence)in his masterful and emotionally moving 1997 masterpiece "Kundun," one of the most overlooked films of the decade.

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Summary: Some of the best work from a drama
Review: I think Casino is one of the best movies out there. This is a movie that tells it all. Lots of violence, And profanity. Witch I like in a 3 Hour Drama/Action. Also Joe Pesci showed his true acting talent in this one.

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Summary: Goodfellas gone West
Review: Casino is an interesting film considering the fact you have to stay on your toes when it comes to the plot. Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci are great as wanna be gangster.

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Summary: Casino, DeNiro and Widescreen!! What a way to go!!
Review: It is too hard to determine which Deniro film is the best Deniro film. What with such films as The Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter,Cape Fear, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, Heat, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Casino, not to forget other films of his, all these under his sleeve, he truly is one of the best actors ever. CASINO CAN NOT BE SEEN ANYWHERE ELSE WITHOUT WIDESCREEN. This film was a treat in the Theater. Now I watch it over and over again. This film should take up four tapes, be even better.

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Summary: Good story......
Review: What could I say? 'Joe Pesci,Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone'I think the names say it all: 'A perfect film with a powerful story'