Casino Movie Review
"Review on Casino"
I gave the film four out of four. It was another masterpiece by Scorsese. With out his directing skills the movie would not have been as successful. In my opinion he gave mob aspect of the film the same charm as he gave it in Goodfellas. At some points it would remind me of Goodfellas because the characters Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci play is very similar to their characters in Goodfellas.
Casino starts in the year 1983 with Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) going into his car turning it on the car blowing up. Then it goes back then years and starts building up to that day in 1983. It seems that Ace is great gambler hr even researches before he makes a bet on something, and only bets on sure things. With these skills he was making a lot of money for the mob. He makes them so much money that they make him manager of their Tangiers casino in Las Vegas. He is such a good businessman that he turns the Tangiers into a highly efficient operation that the mob is making a lot more money off of.
The close to Vegas the mob bosses were allowed to be was Kansas City, and so they send a runner once a week to get them their share of casino's take. Whenever the runner arrives every one turns their head the other way. One of the problems for ace was that you couldn't manage a casino without a gaming license. So he applies for one and every couple of years he has to apply under a different position so that the gaming commission won't know of his mob ties. This way they have Phillip Greene (Kevin Pollak) run the show by name but he's just a puppet and ace is really running the show.
When Ace's friend Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) come to Vegas it starts to complicate everything from is friendship to the casino and eventually with his wife. Ace likes his legit life that he is now living. Nicky, on the other hand, was a made man in the mafia and moving to Vegas mad him feel right at home with the...
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