The Top Five Movie Casino Scenes

Movies have been using casino and casino games as a plot device for tension for decades. There is something about the win or bust nature of gambling that has attracted the industry’s biggest names and inspires the next masterpiece. Almost without question, whenever a movie includes a casino scene, it’s going to be either a huge life changing win or soul destroying loss. Below we have taken a look at some of the most famous big screen movie scenes in some of Hollywood’s biggest pictures.

Here, then, are the top five movie casino scenes.

Casino Royale

In a game of the highest of high stakes Texas Hold’em, Daniel Craig makes his debut as super spy James Bond in one of the most edgy casino scenes in movie history. 007 takes his seat at the table to bankrupt and then recruit the mark, international terrorist, Le Chiffre. The game in question has a $10 million buy in which Bond loses at the first time of trying but, after MI6 refuse to cough up another $5 million for the re buy, the CIA sponsor Bond’s participation instead. The problem now is that their funding comes at a price. For their money, they too want custody of Le Chiffre, but with little choice, he accepts the American deal. So, with a host of keen observers, an attempted poisoning, and everyone with something to lose, the tension boils up nicely. On the table, the pot has swollen to over $100 million which Bond scoops with a straight flush. Mission accomplished.

Ocean’s 13

Breaking the realms of reality the gang reunite for a third time and use state of the art and futuristic technology to make their next $500 million. Using magnetron devices that for cigarette lighters only serves to make a cool film, with a cool cast lead by Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, even cooler. These “lighters” jam the casino’s security system giving the gang three minutes to control the results of the games. This three minute window is the film’s standout casino scene. The third film in the franchise is basically a revenge story as Al Pacino s the cast as a shady financier planning to open a new casino with the returning Elliott Gould. When this deal sours, the crew vow to break Bank’s casino for their jilted friend, during its grand opening. Former enemy, Andy Garcia, agrees to a fragile alliance in order to crush his new competitor and the lighter led chaos ensues.

Run Lola Run

With poker and blackjack already mentioned, it’s only right we look into roulette as a plot device. The best scene for this features in the classic German indie film, Run Lola Run. Lola, on a tight deadline to pay off her boyfriend’s debts for him, has a very little time to raise a lot of funds. At one point, in a state of complete desperation, she decides on roulette as the best way to make money quickly. To be fair, she wins once and, looking out placed after failing the dress code, is about to removed from the premises before she pleads for a second go, where she, ittedly unlikely, verbally assaults the ball into hole and wins the game.

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Rain Man

This 1988 film truly gives Blackjack its moment in the spotlight as Dustin Hoffman’s autistic Raymond Babbit is manipulated by his long lost brother Charlie, played by Tom Cruise. Upon realising that his brother has a photographic memory, after spilling some spilt matchstick which Hoffman’s Babbit correctly and effortlessly counts, Charlie takes his brother to a Las Vegas casino in a bid strike it rich at the blackjack tables. The elevator scene that lifts the brothers, complete with new haircuts and suits from hotel to casino with a spectacular Las Vegas laid out in the background, takes some beating but Hoffman’s card counting scene just about pulls it off. Naturally, Ray beats the house before a less than impressed staff intervene and send the boys packing.

Casino

There is no point putting together a list of the best casino scenes and not including Martin Scorses’s 1995 classic. Here, Scorsese dips back into familiar mob territory and recruits much of his excellent Goodfellas cast, in particular Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci who are ed by a never been better Sharon Stone. The film tells the behind the scenes story of a casino owned by the Chicago mafia, and run by Sam “Ace” Rothstein (De Niro) and the man in charge of “looking after” their star asset, the bad tempered Nicky Santoro (Pesci). Themes of the movie are power, murder, violence and of course greed. The top scene, of many, is an eye popping head in a vice moment where one sneaky patron discovers the penalty for attempting to cheat the house. Ouch!