Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Barbara De Fina and distributed by Universal Pictures.The film is based on the nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese.On the whole, while this film is technically sound, it lacks emotional bite and there will be times during the film when your interest will trail off. The first hour plays like a documentary there's a narration, by Rothstein (Robert De Niro) and others, explaining how the mob skimmed millions out of the casinos.Ĭasino may well be DeNiro's last great performance before he went on his downward spiral, which started with the fellow 1995 movie 'Heat'.
The movie explains how such a thing came to happen to him. The movie opens with a car bombing, and the figure of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein floating through the air. Like 'The Godfather,' it makes us feel like eavesdroppers in a secret place. It's based on a book by Nicholas Pileggi, who had full access to a man who once ran four casinos for the mob, and whose true story inspires the movie's plot. Martin Scorsese's fascinating new film 'Casino' knows a lot about the Mafia's relationship with Las Vegas.
