Synopsis: No One Stays At The Top Forever.
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese’s riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob’s multi-million dollar casino operation where fortunes and lives were made and lost with the roll of the dice.
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Casino 7.5
Well, I liked this movie a LOT more the first two times I saw it. It’s good, certainly, but now I find some of the performances a bit lacklustre and the story seems even less novel than before.
…the first 50 mins, though, are still wicked fun. And that alone is worth the sitting through this one 