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| ACTORS: | Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Martin Scorsese |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 22 November, 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 025192015922 |
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Customer Reviews of Casino
Gambling doesn't payoff Martin Scorcese re-teams with Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi with this inside look at the Las Vegas Casino control. And after their success with GOODFELLAS, this was a promising offering. They succeed in many ways but the story, direction and characters seem more derivative than original.
DeNiro is small time street hood Ace Rothstein who makes big time as a Casino Manager. And like in GOODFELLAS, his doomed relationship with the trip hammer Joe Pesci exhibits what is too come and his paranoia takes over. Added into the mix is Ace's doomed relationship with an expensive call girl whose only interests in life are money, drugs and money. Here, Sharon Stone practically streetwalks away with the film. Her performance as Ginger is frightening.
The storyline is a bit ill conceived as the film has three narrators, making it difficult to know who the story is about. DeNiro's Rothstein and Pesci's Nicky Santoro split most of the film but at one point, a secondary character suddenly takes over narration. Scorcese uses his interesting camera work to relay the story with great success. But, the story never is as enrolling as GOODFELLAS and will always be an also ran because of that. The DVD comes with a nice widescreen transfer and unique soundtrack.
Great film (it's Scorcese: what do you expect?)
"Casino" falls short of Scorcese's classics like "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver," and "Raging Bull," and it covers too familiar ground (another mob movie? De Niro and Pesci again?). Nonetheless, it's an irrestistible glimpse at the mob scene in Vegas, and it's chock full of stellar performances. If Joe Pesci deserved an Oscar for his role in "Goodfellas," then he should have deserved two for "Casino," where he's in even better form. DeNiro also shines in his role as Rothstein, looking dapper in his flawlessly-tailored suits. But the film's revelation is Sharon Stone, who radiates as De Niro's love. She was rightfully nominated for an Oscar, but, to this day, she has never since had a role worth our while as this. Scorcese snobs will roll their eyes and call this film "Goodfellas"-lite, but, at nearly 3 hours, it's good enough to glue your eyes to the screen.
Crippled American Version
This is a great movie that deserves a better dvd treatment. The layout and features are extremely vanilla. Not since Dracula have I see such a vhs content type dvd. Maybe in the future it will get a proper treatment in a boxset but in its current condition this release shouldn't be purchased to accompany any collection.
Also its important to note that this is not the uncut version. So far the only uncut version of this classic to make it to dvd is the Australian release.