Bugsy

Well this movie just ain't no "Goodfellas", even though it was definitely inspired by it. It's a pretty good movie on its own right but it just remains a bit too much on the safe and clean side to really regard... Full review

This was a movie that seemed to have no reason to exist. The story of Bugsy was simply not interesting and seemed to have no reason to be made into a movie. I watched this on cable and it simply did... Full review

Couldn't even get past the first twenty minutes. Truly tripe. Not worth the energy my house consumed attempting to show me this movie. Shlock.... Full review

This has to be the best movie of the year! Josh is just SO hot and the movie was even better than the book! This is my new favorite movie!... Full review

A well-acted, well-directed period piece, but gimme a break, almost none of the history is correct! The real story of Bugsy and Las Vegas should have been given a higher priority, because it's just as fascinating, maybe even more so. Go... Full review

It goes without saying that a modicum of allowances has to be made when a true story is being adapted for the big screen. But if you shoot a fairy tale that has next to nothing to do with what... Full review

Tis is the story of famous gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and beginnings of Las Vegas, Nevada. That part begins about halfway through the 135-minute film when Siegel (Warren Beatty) gets his "vision" about Las Vegas.Too much of this movie is... Full review

Bugsy delivers on all accounts, and Warren Beatty is the best actor of the year. The acting, story, dialogue all meshes together to produce one awesome movie that is also a true story. The determination of Bugsy and the ignored pressure... Full review

After staying at the Las Vegas Flamingo, and spending a substantial amount of time browsing through the artifacts of old Vegas at the Las Vegas History Museum at the Tropicana Hotel, this is one movie I wanted to watch when... Full review

Warren Beatty is a good actor, but he does not quite conform to the role of Bugsy Siegel. Annette Bening and Harvey Keitel play their roles much more convincingly. Also, some of this movie's details are evidently incorrect. It's a fairly... Full review

Indeed, Bugsy comes surprisingly free from cautionary tales. Happily, Bugsy brings us the "good" Levinson, the one more interested in telling a rich story than battering us with moral platitudes. Beatty's terrific lead performance sure helps. ... Full Review

the movie bristles with democratic possibility.....Unlike Lady Killer , Bugsy assures the savvy modern viewer....Yet the movie's hubris escalates with Bugsy's, and both come in for a fall.....Barry Levinson's smart, glamorous Bugsy tells of a real-life mobster who thought he actually was a movie star..... ... Full Review

Beatty gives a riveting performance of a psychotic visionary, Bugsy Siegel, who wants it all, power, fame, family and extramarital affairs. The photography, script and musical score are also quite good. ... Full Review

Bugsy" is rated R for considerable violence, profanity and some sex. Warren Beatty gives his best performance in years as Benjamin Siegel, called "Bugsy" behind his back but never to his face. ... Full Review

Stylish, clever, and fast on its feet, Bugsy is a movie of vast scope and many small pleasures, a lavish, beautifully designed epic....all its lithe pleasures, enunciates too well.....Bugsy is at its best when Bugsy is ruminating on his Vegas fantasy.....Unfortunately, these actors, with their bottom-line aura of danger, have the effect of making Beatty seem that much more harmless..... ... Full Review

Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (January 24, 2007) For a glimpse of how Las Vegas started to become the tourist Mecca it is today, we visit 1991's Bugsy . ... Full Article

Bugsy Gangster Bugsy Siegel (Warren Beatty) has the acting bug bad. But his high profile in Hollywood doesn't sit well with his Mob buddies. As Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) says, ominously: ''For Clark Gable, it's good. ... Full Article

Whenever producer Mark Johnson told people he had cast Ben Kingsley in a key role in Bugsy , he always received the same response: ''You got Gandhi to play Meyer Lansky?'' While Kingsley has been active on stage and in... ... Full Article

Let me start out by saying I don't like Warren Beatty . I think he is a pompous, overrated, average actor. After seeing Bugsy , I think he's a pompous... well, pretty good actor. ... Full Article

By Susan King, Los Angeles Times staff writer The 1991 drama "Bugsy" explored how mobster Bugsy Siegel created Las Vegas. The harrowing 1995 drama "Leaving Las Vegas" examined the life of a failed writer (Nicolas Cage in an Oscar-winning performance)... ... Full Article