this film in scorsese's  career is one of his best. this movie had great acting, drama that set the mood for certain scenes and f- bombs that are dropped alot. the plot is basic, robert deniro plays ace a retired gangster. ace is appointed by the bosses to run a casion called the tangiers in las vegas. they choose ace because he is good with money. ace's friend nicki(joe pesci) is appointed to protect ace in vegas. but when nicki's greedy ways get to him, he tries to takeover vegas and win it all. the movie is basically a fued between nicki, ace, the bosses and ginger who is played by sharon stone. this film was great. scorsese one of my favorite directors overdid himself in this crime drama. it is as good as GOODFELLAS. my favorite scene in this movie is when nicki stabs a guy in the neck to death because the guy told ace to take his pen and shove it up his ass.  i also love that scorsese based this one off of a true mafia crime story that happened in las vegas, nevada. i honestly love how scorsese brought back most of the cast from goodfellas. this movie also had an ending that i should say is a different way to end a scorsese film and it was unexpected. joe pesci's character is one of my favorite in this badass mafia movie. please watch this mafia movie that is truly one of scorsese's best.

GRADE- A