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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Customer Rating: Summary: Awsome Comment: One of the best mob movies ever made!
It's about time that they put it on blue-ray, I've been waiting for a long time for this to happen. Customer Rating: Summary: Casino BRay Comment: THIS IS THE ONLY BLURAY DISC I HAVE HAD A PROBLEM WITH. THERE WAS NO SOUND. I PURCHASED THE SAME DISC FROM BEST BUY AND HAD THE SAME PROBLEM.ALL MY OTHER DISCS WORK WELL. Customer Rating: Summary: Casino - Blu-ray Info Comment: Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
VC-1 BD-50
Running time: 2:58:20
Movie size: 44,74 GB
Disc size: 48,10 GB
Average video bit rate: 19.23 Mbps
Subtitles: English SDH / Chinese / Danish / Dutch / Finnish / French / German / Italian / Japanese / Korean / Norwegian / Spanish / Swedish
Number of chapters: 16
#Audio Commentary
#TV Specials (SD - 56 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (SD - 5 minutes)
#U-Control - BonusView - Picture-in-Picture Customer Rating: Summary: Classic... Comment: Timeless cult-classic brilliantly restored and preserved in highest quality possible today - 5.1 audio and Full HD video. What more can You want? Customer Rating: Summary: Martys Casino Comment: I have owned this HD disc for a while and I never grow tire of it!! In many ways, this film is superior to "Goodfellows" which I also own in HD, not the least being--Sharon Stone!! Her Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning performance is worth the price of the movie alone!! A previous reviewer downgraded her performance but I believe this is a personal bias rather an objective one!! Next to her "Basic Instinct" breakthrough, "Casino" shows that with a great director, Sharon can deliver the goods as well as any of the great femme actors out there like Charlize & Hillary who I also like. Dig this in Hi-Def for the gaudiness and the scene where Ginger throws the chips in the air while DeNiro is entranced by her. Keep in mind though that this is a Universal release and is only available in HD, so do cop a Toshiba machine before they're gone.
