Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
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Actor: Barbara De Fina, Joe Pesci, Nicholas Pileggi, Robert De Niro, Sharon StoneDirector: Martin Scorsese
Brand: DE NIRO,ROBERT
Producer: Barbara De Fina
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi
Writer: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Producer: Andy Cohen
Producer: Joseph P. Reidy
Producer: Laurent Bouzereau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 179 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: Robert De Niro, an icon of the contemporary Hollywood crime film...
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on a true story, Martin Scorsese "Casino" is a motion picture about two characters and their chance to rule the desert paradise of Las Vegas... We are introduced in with all the lights, the noise, the flashing and the colors of the town that doesn't sleep day or night...
De Niro's character, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, is based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who was a hell of a handicapper... He was so good that whenever he bets, he could change the odds for every bookmaker in the country... Genius at what he was doing with numbers, he proved to a lot of guys in the Chicago Mob that he was a tremendous earner that he could make a lot of money for them... As a result, he was able to accomplish whatever bookmaking, handicapping, he wanted to do, with the umbrella of protection from those guys... 'Ace' runs the casino with an iron fist refusing any outside people cheating at his tables...
But he had a fatal flaw... 'Ace' always felt that he could logically and intelligently deal with things, even to deal with emotions... So he decides on making a life with a woman who, he knows, does not necessarily love him... Anyway with such a sexy wife and money to burn, 'Ace' was the epitome of opulence, confidence and power...
Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone) was fascinating... Great woman, truly beautiful, one of the best-known hustlers in town... For her, a guy like 'Ace' was the ultimate score... So the way to Ginger's heart was clearly money... 'Ace' knew that but he didn't care...What he wanted was to marry her...
Sharon Stone really stood up to the challenge in her role as a casino hustler who is so wild... She was young, fresh, confident, looking absolutely fantastic as the independent woman whom everybody desires...
Joe Pesci succeeds in his scary tough role as the strong man who has nerve, and isn't afraid of the cops... He was reportedly a mob hit man reputed to be a sadistic killer... (In one scene, his character is shown torturing someone by putting his head in a vise.)
To protect his friend and adviser, Nicky (Pesci) would beat to a pulp any street guys who messed with 'Ace' or didn't give him the proper respect... Over the course of their friendship Nicky delivered a number of these messages always making sure that 'Ace' didn't get his hands dirty... 'Ace' witnessed several beatings on his behalf... Nicky's mission was to show his worth to the family as an enforcer...
The clothes on De Niro looked very straight, more dangerous and very threatening... They were very important cues to his character, and again, to the progression of the story... 'Ace' was an extremely fastidious guy... And, of course, as you follow the story he starts out in more conservative colors and as things become more chaotic, the colors become more chaotic...
DVD Review: Casino - Even Better Second Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Seeing it on DVD with subtitles was almost like seeing a new movie - one that I understood a lot better. Seeing it for the second time also helped. The first time (15 years ago at the theatre) I was too busy being shocked by the incredible violence of the film (i.e. Joe Pesci). I didn't understand why Pesci seemed more powerful than DeNiro. Second time I got it - Pesci's character is a 'made guy'. DeNiro's is not. Perhaps all those Sopranos episodes between now and the last time I saw this film tuned me into things I didn't pick up on the first time.
I liked it the first time I saw it though not understanding why DeNiro's character let Pesci's run the show had bothered me. The violence bothered me. The second time, I was (a bit more) prepared for the violence and had time to notice other things - like DeNiro's character and some of the mistakes he made along the way - he wouldn't give in on little things - money issues perhaps. These things cost him a lot more in the long run. Take for example not letting the hick relative of a powerful politician stay on the job. And not allowing his wife to get away with giving her ex-lover the $25,000 she seemed so bent on giving him. Even when she returns to him he cannot let sleeping dogs lie and instead has to find out exactly how she used the 25,000 until their relationship has once again disintegrated. While Pesci's character is wildly out of control and the most obvious cause of what brings them down, Rosenthal's own quiet stubbornesses have enormous consequence in what later goes down as well.
I found this movie relentlessly fascinating/horrifying and hardly noticed it was 3 hours. To say Casino is not as fast paced or gripping as Scorsese's earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and GoodFellas) is just a joke. Mean Streets is nowhere near as fast-paced (or gripping) as Casino and while Good Fellas is considered Scorceses mob masterpiece I'd venture to say Casino is roughly in the same ballpark in terms of greatness (and certainly fast-paced intensity).
In terms of DVD special features, the Anniversary edition (anamorphic widescreen 2.35:1) is double-sided with the movie on side A, and bonus features on side B including:
*Deleted scenes,
*"Casino: The Story" - how Scorcese collaborated with writer Pileggi,
*"Casino: The Cast and Characters" - a look at the real people behind the characters and how the filmmakers cast them,
*"Moments with Scorsese, Stone, Pileggi and more!",
*"Vegas and the Mob",
*"True Crime Authors: Casino with Nicholas Pileggi"
This is a fairly jam-packed single dvd for special features and well worth the 4 or so bucks it's going for on Amazon. I think I enjoyed it more on DVD than I did at the movies.
DVD Review: goodfellas 2
Summary: 5 Stars
sure it reminds people of goodfellas but this movie is based on a true story. i find it fascinating. maybe a little long but good. robert deniro is good in anything. he is awesome. the movie is about the mob's rise ad fall in las vegas. they pretty much started sin city but got greedy. i dont want to say too much about the ovie. it is a great movie and if you liked goodfellas, you will like this one also. DVD Review: Goodfellas Lite
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, this is a pretty good film, although there are some flaws. De Niro, Pesci, Stone and Woods are all excellent. Scorcese makes the usual gratuitous use of violence. I'm not sure we needed to see the head in the vice or the bludgeoning w/ baseball bats. Ace Rothstein's approach to handicapping isn't believable: he'd check the wind to gauge field goals and the type of wood on basketball floors to gauge the bounces. Also, the problems in the marriage of Ace and Ginger seem to have been played out in too many scenes w/ redundancy. The movie was probably about 30 minutes too long, but still worth seeing...DVD Review: A Clasic
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie Casino is an insite into when the mob gained controll of a casino. Robert De Niro takes controll of the casino to run it his way onlyand he is tough. Huge amounts of cash are funneld back to the mob. Joe Pesi tries to mussell in and he plays a great part. You get to see the cons trying to beat the tables, Rulett, and the machines. Definately a DVD to own. M Innes Australia.
Description of Casino (Widescreen 10th Anniversary Edition)
Sam \""Ace\"" Rothstein is the front man for one of the mob's premiere Vegas casinos in the 70s, joined by strong man Nicky Santoro, the casino runs smoothly until an icy blonde jinxes their winning streak.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-JUN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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 modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honor 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 GoodFellas), but it's still absorbing. And, hey--it's Scorsese! --Jim Emerson
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