Review of Casino (1995) by Kyle B — 02 Nov 2015

It's starts off with a lot of promise but ends up being a crockpot full of Scorsese's greatest hits mixed with an overdone ending straight out of The Godfather. DeNiro is amazing here as is Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.

I enjoyed Don Rickles and James Woods as well. Scorsese's direction is always great but with this movie being five years after Goodfellas, I felt like it was just the same style all over again with the voice over narration to the long tracking shots through the casino.

The music is perfect, the art direction, cinematography, sound, costumes, and screenplay were all great but it just felt like it wasn't trying to do anything new to the genre. There was a lot of meat that could have been shed off of this 3 hour movie that may of helped the overall quality of the movie.