Subj : Casino (1995)
To   : Arelor
From : The Millionaire
Date : Thu Oct 07 2021 14:50:34

> Hello, moviegoers!

> Today I am going to tell you about Casino, a slow, but entertaining, Mafia
> film.

> Casino is a movie which follows the rise and fall of Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a
> Mafia bookie who gets tasked with running a Casino in Las Vegas controlled by
> the Mafia. It is directed by Martin
> Scorsese and features Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.

> The first thing to note about this film is that it starts slow. About the
> first half of it is devoted to properly introducing the characters.
> Fortunately, the deal is done in a sort of lively
> phashion so you don't get to get bored, but at some point you feel just like
> after eating a bag of cheap snacks. You have the notion that you have
> consumed something which tasted fine, but know
> deep down they are empty callories.

> The three main characters are Sam, Sam's love interest (Ginger) and Nicky,
> the bodyguard assigned by the mafia to cover for Sam. Sam is pretty much a
> strong gentleman, ellegant outside, but
> hardened businessman inside. He is played by Robert de Niro, who plays him as
> a competent administrator who lets nobody pull his leg. Ginger is your
> regular Bimbo from Las Vegas, ready to suck
> any gentleman dry of his money and do anything to survive and pay her vices.
> Nicky, played by Joe Pesci, is probably the most funny character: he is a
> brutal thug who wants to set a proper
> local gang in Las Vegas and does not shy away from torturing or killing
> anybody who dares interfering with his business, Sam's business, or who just
> looks funny at him.

> Casino starts moving when issues start piling up for Sam. For one, Nicky's
> activities attract the attention of the FBI toward's him and the Casino. For
> another, Sam marries Ginger, who is
> obviously not interested in Sam but on the Mafia money he controls. The
> Mafia's business starts to falter because some of the men involved start
> stealing money from the operation. Nicky starts
> getting involved with Sam's wife.

> It is a race in which every issue is running fast to be the first one to blow
> Sam's operation up. The reason you keep watching this movie is precisely that
> you want to find out which part of
> the operation is going to explode first and who is the one who will get
> killed when it does. Since the characters are so fleshed out, this movie is
> kind of effective at making you feel for them
> when circumpstances implode and people starts dying. You don't know how evil
> you are until a gang of mobsters start beating somebody with baseball bats in
> the middle of nowhere and you are
> jumping up and down on your armchair, laughting as teeth fly around.

> This film takes its 3 hours to deliver. It is quite fine once it kicks into
> gear, but it takes its time. Still, if you have some time to kill, watching
> Casino is safer than a poker party with
> mobsters and hookers, so maybe it is an option worth considering.

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I believe that was a true story and good but slow movie.

$ The Millionaire $
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