Casino | 
| Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Frank Vincent
Studio: MCA/Universal Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 2603
Format: Ac-3, Dolby, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 178 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D29796D
UPC: 025192979620
EAN: 0025192979620
ASIN: B000C20VPA
Theatrical Release Date: November 22, 1995
Release Date: January 17, 2006
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Product Description
Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and reveling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cold cash to his bosses. Helping him keep the casino's employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims to run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants to take over the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the picture, Ace and Nicky's friendship is complicated even further. As drugs and alcohol become a bigger part of Ginger's life, all three are eventually brought down by their own greed and blind ambition. CASINO shares many similarities with GOODFELLAS, beginning with a script that was cowritten by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. Regulars De Niro and Pesci are first rate once again as the dissimilar companions, but it is Stone who steals the show with her grueling, intense performance.
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 This is what ganster movies should be...A Martin Scorcese Masterpiece June 30, 2009
Shane
That is an undeniable fact. Unless he made some other movie about Las Vegas around the same time that his name wasn't attached to. Like Leaving Las Vegas, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, or Vegas Vacation. Even some dull video for the city to attract tourists would have been an improvement.
Imagine Goodfellas without Ray Liotta and his oddly charming narration. You'll end up with something like this. Basically a remake minus the only interesting character. It'd be like making Pirates with just Orlando Bloom and that anorexic girl and her freakishly long neck. EAT SOMETHING! Wear shoulder pads too. Every time I see the end of that movie where she's standing way up over the rocks it looks like her head is going to fall right off that skinny neck of hers. I just can't watch it. And I can't watch this either, but that's not her fault. It's just two guys doing the same thing they've done a million times before sleepwalking for 3 hours so they can pick up an easy paycheck while that guy with the big eyebrows sits back and tells them to hurry up and get it over with so he can ditch them and start a new life with Leonardo DiCaprio. And who can blame him. Leo is younger and much more handsome.
Another Scorsese Gem June 28, 2009
Wild Card (United States)
Martin Scorsese is in the top tier of directors. Although "Casino" is not as memorable as "The Departed", "Goodfellas", and "Taxi Driver", it's still a great epic on a large scale. Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci team up again for third time since "Raging Bull" and it never disappoints. Pesci and Sharon Stone stand out among the cast because De Niro is amazing as usual. If you're looking for something similar to "Goodfellas", check it out.
 "Goodfellas" set in Las Vegas June 24, 2009
JAG 1 (New England)
I guess if you liked "Goodfellas" you will like "Casino". There is so much of "Goodfellas" in "Casino" that sometimes it is hard to tell the two movies apart. At least four actors cross over into both movies and play practically the same parts with different names. The old lady who plays Joe Pesci's mom in "Goodfellas" plays the same little old Italian mother to somebody else in casino. Joe Pesci is the same foul-mouthed Italian-American maniac as he is in "Goodfellas". Pesci even dies the same way in both movies (by getting "whacked").
The two movies also use similar effects such as dramatic narrations and video sequences played out to "oldies music" as a device to speed things up. Both main characters survive but end up missing the exciting life that the rest of us hard working law-abiding bums must live out. Both movies also have a "mob boss" who, although played by different actors, is basically the same guy.
Despite lots of action, suspense and good acting, the story itself provides characters that are not the least bit likable. Almost everyone is a foul-mouthed a-hole. Even the ten-year-old girl in the movie was a brat.
My final summation is that "Casino" is basically a variation of "Goodfellas" set in Las Vegas. I wouldn't spent more money buying it than you could spend renting it.
Based on a true story May 19, 2009
Neela N. Wickenkamp
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Watched "Casino" and 2 days later, The History Channel did a show about this story. Everything in the movie happened just the way it did at the time. Facinating story. And although he wasn't funny, Don Rickles (one of my favorite comedians) was pretty good (for a hocky puck). Glad Sharon Stones character ends up like she did. Greedy "broad" to use the vernacular of the era. Great movie.
"This is Las Vegas. We're supposed to be robbin' this place . . ." May 13, 2009
Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
My favorite films range from gangster flicks (The Godfather 1 & 2), comic book adaptations (Batman '89), Sci-fi spectacles (2001: A Space Odyssey, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Thing), realistic thrillers (Collateral, No Country for Old Men), and animated classics (Fantasia, The Lion King). Casino is slowly being put on my list. This is a fantastic 178-minute film by Martin Scorsese, which is sadly underlooked. Maybe it's because it is quite similar to Goodfellas: two of the same cast members, same gangster themes, etc. But anyways, I seem to prefer this to Goodfellas, which is also a great movie. Here, we get to see some equally disturbing images ("In the end, I had to put his ****ing head in a vice") and a more excessive use of the F and S words (the F word being used 398 times in just under three hours).
And not only that, we get to see some of the finest performances by De Niro, Stone, and Pesci. De Niro plays Sam Rothstein, one of the top handicappers in Las Vegas. As the owner of the fictional Tangiers casino who has connections with the Mafia, he looks to be an egotistical perfectionist, who treats his workers as if they're drug addicts. On the soft side, though, he is a caring family man who would do anything to protect his wife and child. De Niro should have at least been nominated for an oscar: here he is at the top of his game. He brings his trademark attitude into the picture, never losing his cool and never surrendering to overacting.
You all know what Joe Pesci is capable of. Starring as Nicky Santoro, he is a hotheaded psychopath who relies on his balls instead of his head. He uses his explosively violent attitude to solve many of his problems, with disturbing and darkly hilarious results. I would NEVER want to confront a person like him. Pesci sure steals the show with his cursing and his aggressive personality, and he's clearly one of the reasons why I like Casino.
I was never a fan of Sharon Stone, but she shines in this movie. She plays Rothstein's beautiful but obnoxious wife who takes her time smoking, drinking, taking pills, and embracing her husband's money. She is a woman that people love to hate, and she would care less what we all think of her.
To be honest, what I like more than the performances is the overall flow of the film. This is half documentary, half mobster flick. Rothstein and Santoro become the narrators, and show us what happens in the Tangiers, and what sort of business they run. The narration may slow the film down a few times, but the information is just what we need in order to understand what type of people are running, and making money off of, the casino.
In short, Casino is an excessively violent film with excessive profanity. Goodfellas may be the more popular film, but personally I have more admiration for Casino. Kudos to Scorsese, De Niro, Stone, Pesci, Rickles, Woods, and Vincent for making such a spectacular film.
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