This is a another great "mob" movie about the rackets in Las Vegas with the gambling industry and the personalities involved in this tale. There's also the romance between the greatest of men, I say, Mr. Robert De Niro and the loveliest of gals - Ms. Sharon Stone. These two have to learn to appreciate one another more and realize they are up to the job of being fair loving and giving - if both are giving their best to make the match work in worthy fashion as they certainly could - and must in what is to come I believe.

There's an interesting moment when a corrupt Las Vegas Gambling official tells our own De Niro that "your people think this is their home, when it isn't at all" He was referring obviously to some types down there who don't appreciate the greatness that is the stuff of De Niro and his genre for industry creativity and strength and idealistic goodness which comes fro the core. As such the corrupt individual of an official should be on notice that his time making such statements about the better people is at an end and that no doubt the thinking on this will soon be reversed in the minds of sanely thinking fair people I know. Joe Pesci's character sure does throw his weight around in this movie and is unacceptably and insanely rude to De Niro and "underlings" as he sees them. He finally gets put in his place for it in the minds of some I would suppose. I do love Sharon Stone - great seeing her always - and forever more - amen!

Michael Rizzo Chessman
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