50 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video: Casino
Updated ranking of the 50 best movies on Amazon Prime Video you can watch for free with a subscription, including the 1998 movie Casino, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone.
Casino marked the eighth time Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro worked together on a film. Casino also marks the first time De Niro and Joe Pesci worked together since Goodfellas. Casino follows in the footsteps of that iconic gangster drama and takes to Las Vegas where you never want to have a meeting in the desert and corn fields will never be looked at the same way again.
The movie was released in 1995 and De Niro plays Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein who is in charge of running the Tangiers Casino in Vegas. The Chicago mob is really running things but he is the front and the face for the operation. Nicky Santoro, played by Pesci, is there to make sure money is skimmed off the top and funneled back into the pockets of the mob.
Nicky and Ace are longtime friends dating back to their childhood but their relationship is tested in their new business arrangement. Nicky gets kicked out of every casino in town and is a total loose cannon who can’t be trusted.
Sam wants Nicky to leave Vegas and have a meeting in the desert where there are plenty of bodies buried beneath the sand and dirt and we aren’t sure if one of these two guys will eventually find the same fate.
While Ace is in danger of losing his gaming license and Nicky is a loose cannon, Ace meets a former prostitute named Ginger, played by Stone, who eventually married and has a daughter with Ace. But her inability to separate herself from former con man/pimp Lester, played by James Woods, sees their relationship take an ugly and sad turn for the worse.
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Taking a turn for the worse can be said for all three of our primary characters in Casino which is based on the true story by screenplay writer Nicholas Pileggi, Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.
Whether you’ve seen it a dozen times like me or you’ve never seen it before, check out where Casino ranks on our list of the 50 best movies on Amazon Prime Video and find 2:30 to watch the movie soon.