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Sharon Stone's presence on screen at times outweighs even de Niro's. She is perfectly suited to play the local hustler, Ginger, who has everyone in her back pocket, and never passes up the opportunity to make a buck. Her only weakness is a completely unexplained affection for her pimp, played by James Woods...
...course, Ace and Ginger quickly become an item, and when Ace makes her an offer she can't refuse, they get engaged. The fact that they are not in love is less important than the fact that they are swimming in money. In Las Vegas, money is the only prerequisite for happiness...
...named Nick Santorro (Pesci) moves to Las Vegas. Nick is an enforcer whose job is to protect Ace. Instead he uses his innate charm and frantic firsts to intimidate just about everyone in Las Vegas. Nick's flamboyant style and brutal methods alienate everyone. When Nick, Ace and Ginger degenerate into a lying, cheating and stealing triangle, the film too gets stuck...
...Casino (or should we call it GoodFellas Go West?) three hours to record. Until it's too late, Sam is entirely too tolerant of his lifelong buddy Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a cheerful psychopath who is more trouble than he's worth. Sam also falls into distracting obsession with Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), and that's not good for him or for business either. She's a hustler whose excessive interest in furs and jewels would warn off a more worldly man. As would the fact that she leaves their wedding banquet to make a tearful call to the sleazy...
...long as Casino stays focused on the excesses--of language, of violence, of ambition--in the life-styles of the rich and infamous, it remains a smart, knowing, if often repetitive, spectacle. But in its last hour, as it concentrates more and more on Ginger's increasingly desperate and degrading attempts to escape Sam's smothering affections, the film winds neurotically in on itself. And neither the controlled rage of De Niro's playing nor the entrapped ferocity of Stone's, as she breaks definitively with her sex-symbol past, can prevent the film--and its audience--from sinking into...