Rent Casino (1995)
4.0 of 5 from 350 ratings
2h 58min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is riding high as frontman for the Mob's multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their 'investment', the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle - until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping, fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances, a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous facade, beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes - and lives - were made and lost with a roll of the dice. - Actors:
- Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, L.Q. Jones, Dick Smothers, Frank Vincent, John Bloom, Pasquale Cajano, Melissa Prophet, Bill Allison, Vinny Vella, Philip Suriano, Erika von Tagen, Frankie Avalon, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows
- Directors:
- Martin Scorsese
- Producers:
- Barbara de Fina
- Writers:
- Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A History of Sports Films (Summer Edition), Films by Genre, Gangster films & Trilogies, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Joe Pesci, Getting to Know: Margot Robbie, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Martin Scorsese, Top 10 Award Winners at the London Film Festival, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/11/2008
- Run Time:
- 179 minutes
- Languages:
- Canadian French DTS 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Italian DTS 5.1, Japanese DTS 5.1, Latin American Spanish DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Moments with Martin Scorsese, Sharon Stone, Nicholas Pileggi and More
- Deleted Scenes
- Vegas and the Mob
- History Alive: True Crime Authors: Casino With Nicholas Pileggi (The History Channel)
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/09/2019
- Run Time:
- 178 minutes
- Languages:
- Czech DTS 5.1, English DTS:X, French DTS 5.1, Hungarian DTS 5.1, Polish, Russian DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Complex Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Simplified Mandarin, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of Casino
Gangster movie magic - Casino review by PT
Scorsese's Goodfellas is the movie that most film buffs rate as his classic gangster film (which is phenomenal, no argument), but for me casino is his best in this genre.
The three leads are right at their best here. De Niro plays Ace, a level headed ,calculating, business first type gangster. Pesci is the polar opposite as Nicky, an ultra violent psychopathic, hedonistic, live life with his foot full to the pedal gangster. Stone has never been better as the hustler Ginger, whose deception in the hustling pervades into her whole persona (who can forget the freeze frame when Ace "feel in love there and then" with her). Simply great.
6 out of 7 members found this review helpful.
Epic Gangster Masterpiece - Casino review by GI
Martin Scorsese's film about greed, corruption and gambling in Las Vegas is a gangster film and companion piece to Goodfellas (1990). Both films are structured similarly with voiceover narrations and sharply observe the brutal criminal world that controls key aspects of American society. Casino is loosely based on real persons and events and follows the criminal rise and fall of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a gifted gambler who is employed to run a huge mafia owned casino in Las Vegas. While the money rolls in his bosses are happy. But Sam's old school friend and mobster Nicky (Joe Pesci in another juicy gangster role) comes along to run his own scam and has plans to control all the illegal activity in the city. Everything runs fine for Sam until he meets and marries the unreliable hustler, Ginger (Sharon Stone) and Nicky begins to take things too far giving the FBI an excuse to investigate everyone. Interestingly while the film rattles along at a great pace it doesn't really have a plot as such. It simply follows the lives of the key characters along the road to their own fall and in some cases they end extremely violently. Scorsese doesn't flinch from these aspects and the film has some of the most brutal killings you'll get to see in cinema. But this is a key modern film and although set in the 70s and early 80s it's also a condemnation of contemporary America. All the performances are excellent and Pesci excels as the psychopathic Nicky in a role very similar to the part of Tommy he plays in Goodfellas. This is one of the best films about organised crime in America since The Godfather (1972) and whilst it's shocking and disturbing it's a film that is epic in structure and shows a filmmaker at the top of his game. A must-see film.
4 out of 4 members found this review helpful.