Review of Casino

Casino (1995)
5/10
A Bloody Trip Down Memory Lane
21 September 2011
Wow. Can't agree with most of the reviews for this one.

Love DeNiro and Scorcese and Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of my favorites, but I found Casino hard to sit through, despite the great performances. I think Scorcese went to the DeNiro/Pesci/gangster film well once too often. I found the aging and diminutive Joe Pesci a little hard to believe as a Mafia enforcer and his "love" scene with Sharon Stone is unintentionally comical.

Brutally violent, overly long, and with few laughs to break the monotony, I actually found myself looking at my watch halfway through. Non-stop narration is distracting and an odd choice for Scorcese.
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