'Bugsy' has Beaty trying to be Vegas mobster but he's just Beaty

Bugsy    R      

            Bugsy Seigal was a mob boss who had a dream about running a casino called the Flamingo out in the Nevada desert, in what would eventually become Las Vegas. Bugsy helped to start Las Vegas and was infamous there for ruthless behavior in the days before the gambling commission, which could have made for a more interesting movie, had they not cast a guy who hardly ever convinced the adience he's not playing himself. Beaty's work wasn't always this full of itself. Barry Levinson gives Warren Beaty a bit too much leeway to ad-lib stuff and make up his own story right up to the ending (only in Hollywood would they tack on a ridiculous ending), in this surreal interpretation of the life of Bugsy. (He got gunned down while getting a barbershop haircut, not while watching home movies). It's almost as if Beaty wants to be the founder of Las Vegas, not the actor playing the guy who thought of it. This doesn't make it a good movie. 
Review by Adam Browne