Unlike few movies made in the past two decades, Casino embodies 'epic' filmmaking with acquiescing to its soul-deadening conventions. Further complicating things is Ginger (a never-better Sharon Stone), a high-class Vegas call girl who mesmerizes Ace to increasingly destructive effect. As Scorsese himself describes, the film is heavy on plot but light on story: Sam 'Ace' Rothstein relocates to Las Vegas to run the Tangiers casino, only to find trouble when one of his cohorts, Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), leaps into the fray and disrupts his tenuous hold over the quasi-legal proceedings.
