I remember it getting good reviews when it came out but I never felt compelled to give it a watch. I'm not a huge fan of gangster films (Goodfellas in particular is a film I found to be completely overrated). This is mainly because they feature completely unsympathetic characters and watching their inevitable fall from grace doesn't engage me much. Las Vegas has never held much interest for me either - the notion of discovering that it's a glitzy good-time place with a dark underbelly is kinda lost on someone for whom glitzy good times are pretty much associated with dark underbellies from the get go. That's just me.
This was different to what I expected though, whilst being exactly what I expected in terms of plot. Very well made, good story, interesting but flawed main character (De Niro) with a truly shady associate (Pesci) and an even shadier wife (Stone). It's long, so I watched it in chunks and I found myself looking forward to seeing where the story was going to twist next.
Worth a watch.
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