Based on a true story this film is awesome. Ace runs the casino and Nick handles the skim.... a gangster movie in Las Vegas. This movie is the rise and fall of Ace and Nick and Ginger played by Sharon Stone. Needless to say the performances by Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci and SharonStone are phenomenal. This is a sad story about a way of life that has severe consequences and death usually is the consequence. Highly entertaining but sad in the same breath. They don’t make many movies in this vain except for Scorsese and Tarantino so do yourself a favour and watch it.... immediately

While not as good as Goodfellas this still is one of the best mobster movies. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci are both great again. Sharon Stone gives a fantastically annoying performance. The story is interesting and does some things you don't expect. This is quite long but it never felt like it. I feel like I'm taking Martin Scorsese's for granted here. He knows how to make these movies work and work effortlessly.

You probably need to be a massive fan of Scorsese and his style to like this movie. Personally, I found it beautiful to look at but ultimately totally boring. I was 80 minutes in and it felt like five hours. Not ripping the movie, just not my style. Therefore a 100 % personal "meh".

It's on par with Goodfellas imho, it just doesn't have the prestige. It's one of my favourite Scorseses. There's something interesting going on in all of His films, and I'll get to the bottom of it before I die.

It started with a lot of narration explaining the context. Might be a bit tedious for the first few minutes but as the movie building up its tense I was getting used to it. This is a very long movie (3 hours) and there are lots of moments lumped into the movie, but it all tied up nicely, with some events unsuspectingly leading to another event. I watched this after Wolf of Wall Street, and I feel a similar vibe (though obviously with many differences): a quest to power, wealth, stardom--and how the guy trying to maintain it ended up with losing everything. The last scene nailed it best, evoking how all his greed resulted in nothing and he has it enough with "that's that".