Is it still a great film? Pretty much.Ĭasino follows casino executive Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (Robert De Niro) as he battles his old mafia buddy Nicky for control of Vegas’ gambling scene.
Is Joe Pesci’s character of Nicky Santoro basically a Vegas-dwelling Tommy DeVito? Absolutely. Yet five years later came Casino which, while sometimes treading almost identical narrative beats to Scorsese’s 1990 gangster epic, offers similar levels of tension, violence and deception to Scorsese’s celebrated masterpiece. When you think of Martin Scorsese in the 1990s, Goodfellas is almost always the film that springs to mind. Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
