A film that lodges midway between The Age of
Innocence and Taxi Driver on the Scorsese scale.DeNiro,
Joe Pesci and a bunch of jowly Italian guys have returned from
Good Fellas to screw, bash and plug one another again as
the director continues his romance with the Mafia mystique. DeNiro
plays a Casino chief who has everything: money, prestige and a
fox (Sharon Stone), which in Scorsese's world means he has everything
to lose. Set over more than a decade and thick with narration,
Casino is an uncannily alienating movie. It's hard to sympathize
with any of the characters and it's so long that sometimes you
just want it to be over. Still, no one has as much style as Scorsese;
the camera lurches and rolls through this film like the entire
town of Vegas is a sinking ship. Totally violent, but where else
can you watch silver-haired old men beating each other to a pulp?
--Stacey Richter
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