Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3194 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-11
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
• Dubbed in: Hungarian
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 117 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modelled on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honour in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon Stone is the stand out among the actors; she nabbed an Oscar nomination for her role as the voracious Ginger, the glitzy call girl who becomes Rothstein's wife. The film is not as fast-paced or gripping as Scorsese's earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and Good Fellas) but it's still absorbing. And, hey--it's Scorsese! --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

Synopsis
Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's Goodfellas. Set in the 1970s and revelling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of casino manager Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro). As the king of his domain, Ace efficiently runs the business and regularly sends lots of cold cash to his bosses. Helping him keep the casino's employees and customers honest is his best friend, Nicky (Joe Pesci), a violent sociopath. Although Ace aims to run a relatively respectable casino, the volatile Nicky wants to take over the entire gambling mecca, and when Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), a seasoned Vegas hustler, enters the picture, Ace and Nicky's friendship is complicated even further. As drugs and alcohol become a bigger part of Ginger's life, all three are eventually brought down by their own greed and blind ambition. Casino shares many similarities with Goodfellas, beginning with a script that was cowritten by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. Regulars De Niro and Pesci are first rate once again as the dissimilar companions, but it is Stone who steals the show with her gruelling, intense performance.

Customer Reviews

Top quality Scorsese movie
This isn't quite up there with Goodfellas, but it's still an incredible ride. The cinematography and music are stunning, and the violence is harsh and brutal stuff. It's an interesting story, very well told, and should be seen by anyone who enjoys a good gangster movie. Fine stuff.

Characters you love to hate
Casino is a fantastic film with fabulous, characters. I usually do not like violent movies, but 'Casino' definitely 'rocked my boat' despite the blood and gutts.
The film leaves you thinking about it long after it's finished; A sign of a good movie. After watching Casino, you find yourself pondering over the storyline, the characters for days afterwards; Thinking about the the landmark decisions that lead to the characters harsships and the possible future events that could unfold for them later in their lives.
The story depicted greed and love and how human beings can endure pain, heartache and betrayal in order to keep a person they love in their life.
Casino also showed how 'love of money' can lead to all kinds of deceit, betrayal and evil.
I loved this movie, it definitely deserved 5 stars

The most uncompromising studio picture of the 1990s.
A complex, multilayered, beautifully directed film, Martin Scorsese's Casino is a masterpiece of destruction and betrayal. Few films take so many chances and succeed so wonderfully. It takes some of the basic formulas that were found in Goodfellas and applies them to another type of story - while Goodfellas' view was ground-level, telling the story of the "blue collar" gangsters of NYC, this film tells the story of the guys who controlled those guys. And it's fascinating to watch these people run Las Vegas, control the flow of money, and then fall from the heights of power due to lust, hubris, and greed. An amazing film that will hopefully get the recognition it deserves in the years to come.