Its sharp dialogues, strong performances, and undivided focus on the gambling element make it a masterpiece among all casino and non-casino movies. With movie stars like Robert De Niro as “Ace” – the professional gambler and casino manager, Sharon Stone to play his love interest, and Joe Pesci to bring chaos and destruction into the plot, Casino could not be anything but a big hit. It is there to capture the rise and fall of the Tangiers Casino, showing the crime around it, with the insights of the casino operations.
The film explores such complex topics as friendship, love, loyalty, greed, power, corruption, and betrayal. What is the better way to start a list of the casino movies if not with Martin Scorsese’s Casino ? Released in 1995, it was a throwback to the glory days of the gambling scene in America in the late 1960s and early 1980s. Download the RunPee app for free: Read more about the RunPee app.
