This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering glamorous face as well as a brutal cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes each as a foil to the other the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970s and 80s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman robbing and shaking down the locals. However they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler Ginger and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
Review
Casino has to be one of the most underrated films that Martin Scorsese directed in the nineties. The acting by the leads is good and the script is excellent. Robert Deniro gave an Oscar worthy performance and Joes Pesci is chilling yet funny again. Even Sharon Stone is good in this brilliant film