5 years after the release of the brilliant Goodfella's, based on Nicolas Pileggi's biographical novel Wiseguy, Scorsese once again teams up with the crime writer to create the screenplay for Casino, another true story of the mob's brief and violent history in the Casino's of Las Vegas. It told the story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, here named Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, and played by DeNiro. Rothstein is an excellent gambler and handycapper employed by the mob to oversee the lucrative business enterprise that is Vegas's Casino's, here in the movie it is the fictional Tangiers that he is given free reign of and through which he will pilfer endless money back to his bosses at home. All is well until the bosses decide to protect their investment and send muscle, Ace's old friend Nicky Santoro, based on the real life mobster Tony Spilotro - Joe Pesci in a role not a hundred miles from Tommy that he played in Goodfellas. Between Nicky and Ace's girl, Ginger - Sharon Stone - the neat and meticulous enterprise that Ace managed soon unravels in a saga of violence and betrayal, yet another rise and fall story synonymous with the gangster genre. The film was never slated, but a lot of critics took to the opinion that the film was a blatant replication of Goodfellas, and in a sense that is true, but I don't necessarily think that that is a bad thing. So what if Pesci is the same character? He played it well, notably one of the most volatile villains in film, and that personality fits ...