***SPOILERS***The film "Casino Jack" chronicles the life and times as well as crimes of super D.C political lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Kevin Spacey, who's feelings of invincibility came crashing down on him together with the gallery of crooks who aligned themselves with him."Rabbi" Jack himself got off pretty easy by spending less then four years behind bars in a federal prison where he, being an orthodox Jew, gave Jewish religious services and thought screen writing, in him being involved with the movie industry, to his fellow inmates.
We get to see Jack at the start of the movie being booked photographed fingerprinted and sent to the lock-up with his biggest shock is that there's no kosher food being served to the Jewish, as well as Muslim, prisoners like himself which seemed to bother Jack more then anything else. In fact what we soon see in a number of flashbacks is that the dealings that Jack had on the outside in stiffing his clients out of as much as 70 million dollars were anything but kosher themselves! Together with his parters in crime Michael Scanlon, Barry Pepper, and mattress mogul Adam Kian, Jon Lovitz, Jack stiffed as many people as Berney Madoff did but got a fraction of Madoff's ill gotten gain. As well as him getting a fraction, 3 1/2 to 150 years, of the time behind bars that Madoff got!
Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff really lets it all hang out in his Academy Award caliber,every bit as good as "The Usual Suspect" and "All American Beauty", performance as the slippery as an eel lobbyist who ended up destroying not only his innocent victims but those slimy creeps who worked together with him lives. Not only did Jack bring himself down but also his good born again Christian friend and benefactor Congressional Majority leader Tom "The Exterminator" DeLay, Spencer Garrett, whom beside being involved with him in robbing a number of Native American Indian Tribes blind in after taking their millions for getting them gaming licenses and not delivering but pushing modern day slavery legislation in Sipan in the Mariana Islands! That's by having the right to put the "Made In America" label, the islands where under US Government control, on the products being produced there.
What really lead to Jack & Co. downfall was their own greed in never having enough and feeling that no matter how deep in the hole they get there always will be someone around to bail them out. It's when Jack's stealing and covering up go so out of control that it even lead to the Mafia style murder of one of his biggest clients Greek shipping mogul Gus Boulis, Daniel Kash. That lead straight to Adam Kidan who had the mob whack Boulis in revenge of him viciously attacking Kidan with a ballpoint pen. It's that senseless action which started the domino's to fall and put all of Jack's future plans on ice or like himself in cold storage!
P.S Hilarious final with Jack on trial for his crimes in a dream sequence dreaming of himself as being actor Al Pacino in the movie "And Justice for All" as he stops invoking the 5th Amendment and then lets his accusers the members of the US Senate & Congress have it! Telling them in open court on live TV and radio just what a bunch of phony lying and sanctimonious frauds they are in taking his pay-off money and looking the other way when he committed his many crimes in that they should be right there on trial together with him!
We get to see Jack at the start of the movie being booked photographed fingerprinted and sent to the lock-up with his biggest shock is that there's no kosher food being served to the Jewish, as well as Muslim, prisoners like himself which seemed to bother Jack more then anything else. In fact what we soon see in a number of flashbacks is that the dealings that Jack had on the outside in stiffing his clients out of as much as 70 million dollars were anything but kosher themselves! Together with his parters in crime Michael Scanlon, Barry Pepper, and mattress mogul Adam Kian, Jon Lovitz, Jack stiffed as many people as Berney Madoff did but got a fraction of Madoff's ill gotten gain. As well as him getting a fraction, 3 1/2 to 150 years, of the time behind bars that Madoff got!
Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff really lets it all hang out in his Academy Award caliber,every bit as good as "The Usual Suspect" and "All American Beauty", performance as the slippery as an eel lobbyist who ended up destroying not only his innocent victims but those slimy creeps who worked together with him lives. Not only did Jack bring himself down but also his good born again Christian friend and benefactor Congressional Majority leader Tom "The Exterminator" DeLay, Spencer Garrett, whom beside being involved with him in robbing a number of Native American Indian Tribes blind in after taking their millions for getting them gaming licenses and not delivering but pushing modern day slavery legislation in Sipan in the Mariana Islands! That's by having the right to put the "Made In America" label, the islands where under US Government control, on the products being produced there.
What really lead to Jack & Co. downfall was their own greed in never having enough and feeling that no matter how deep in the hole they get there always will be someone around to bail them out. It's when Jack's stealing and covering up go so out of control that it even lead to the Mafia style murder of one of his biggest clients Greek shipping mogul Gus Boulis, Daniel Kash. That lead straight to Adam Kidan who had the mob whack Boulis in revenge of him viciously attacking Kidan with a ballpoint pen. It's that senseless action which started the domino's to fall and put all of Jack's future plans on ice or like himself in cold storage!
P.S Hilarious final with Jack on trial for his crimes in a dream sequence dreaming of himself as being actor Al Pacino in the movie "And Justice for All" as he stops invoking the 5th Amendment and then lets his accusers the members of the US Senate & Congress have it! Telling them in open court on live TV and radio just what a bunch of phony lying and sanctimonious frauds they are in taking his pay-off money and looking the other way when he committed his many crimes in that they should be right there on trial together with him!