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Starring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci, Scorsese's latest gangster morality tale continues a collaboration that began with the brilliant "Raging Bull" 15 years ago. Add to this mix the stunning Sharon Stone, whose acting ability is finally apparent, and stylish Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson and it is clear that any fault of "Casino" is not due to a lack of talent on the set. Rather it is this film's ambitious script which gambles...
...Niro plays Ace Rothstein, a Jewish odds maker so successful in Brooklyn that he is sent to run the massive Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. Now that they are legal, his talents are even more impressive; Ace's stoic and calculated methods are a thrill to watch...
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...
...ROTHSTEIN (ROBERT DE NIRO) favors sports jackets in blinding solids--sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...
...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 a been-here, seen-that mood...