The Two Jakes

After seeing this movie from beginning to end recently, I must say I wasn't as impressed with it as I was when I saw an interupted version on the Idiot Box. However, it's not a boring movie, it moves right along... Full review

This is the sequel to Chinatown. Jack Nicholson revises his character, JJ Gittes, a sleazy private detective. In this movie, he is hired by a husband to catch his wife in bed with his business partner. However, there is a murder... Full review

This sounded pretty good... Nicholson is mostly fun to watch, and I enjoyed Chinatown immensely(Towne returning to write this sequel was a treat, as well). I enjoyed it for a while, but not too far past the half-way point, I... Full review

Being a "sequel" to "Chinatown," I had high expectations of this film. I even gave it two looks - one on VHS and then one a few years later on DVD - because I wanted so much to like it....but... Full review

Personally, I don't know why they had to make a sequel to "Chinatown". They just can't quite repeat the feeling of sleaze and murkiness that so pervaded the original. That said, "The Two Jakes" isn't terrible. Portraying Jake Gittes (Jack... Full review

I just watched Chinatown for the frst time, then picked this sequal up. Ooops, its just not the same umpph the first had. Don't waste your time.... Full review

Most reviews pull The Two Jakes to pieces, except for a very well-considered one by Roger Ebert (find it at the Chicago Sun-Times).Of course, it's not the classic Chinatown is, but it's a damned good movie. It's about the past,... Full review

Because Los Angeles (say it with a hard "g" and you'll get the exact way most "Anglos" said it before 1950) is where desert meets ocean, there lingers over the place a constant aura of the primordial. It can be... Full review

Jack Nicholson is certainly one of the greatest actors of this or any generation. Chinatown is perhaps his greatest film and he certainly should have won an Oscar for it. Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe certainly have nothing on his... Full review

If you compare this film to its predecessor then you will disappointed. However, if you examine it as a character study of Jake Gittes and what has become of him, then you have something to go for here. Mr. Nicholson... Full review

The Two Jakes" lacks any storytelling potency.....With "Chinatown" being a powerful and classic picture, "The Two Jakes" had a big shadow to follow....The problem with the film is its derivative approach.....is a far inferior picture that has left many to wonder....The Two Jakes" suffers because it offers nothing new as a sequel and only sponges on the success of its predecessor..... ... Full Review

The Two Jakes was so overwhelmingly disappointing....eventually ties into some of the twisted events of the first film, The Two Jakes still manages to be horribly bland and excruciatingly boring.....Unquestionably inferior to its predecessor and shockingly mediocre, the Jack Nicholson directed The Two Jakes is the sequel to Roman Polanski's near-perfect film noir, Chinatown..... ... Full Review

Maybe that's why The Two Jakes is never as poignant....Using shots and a slew of character actors as homage to a classic movie he starred in doesn't feel cheap here;....liars, the actor effortlessly throws his charisma around along with his weight.....What it lacks in aggressive storytelling, it makes up for in character.....Nicholson seems to have a genuine affection for the project, disappointed.... ... Full Review

Maybe that's why The Two Jakes is never as poignant or unnerving as its predecessor. DVD Review: The Two Jakes: Special Collector's Edition Director(s): Jack Nicholson. What it lacks in aggressive storytelling, it makes up for in character. ... Full Review

Which isn't to say that The Two Jakes is horrible, it's merely serviceable. The Two Jakes has none of that special atmosphere. Had The Two Jakes stood on its own as an homage to old 1940s film noir, it might have actually fared better. ... Full Review

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough"-- Noah Cross (John Huston) in Chinatown. There are a number of reasons why I am kicking off this week's Chapter Two with... ... Full Article

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Reviewing "The Two Jakes'' in 1990, a reviewer for Variety wrote that the flick's production history is "almost as convoluted as the plot.'' Sure enough, this underrated sequel to "Chinatown'' poses one of Hollywood's greatest unsolved mysteries. ... Full Article

The '80s found many of the young turks that revolutionized Hollywood in the '70s desperate and adrift. A love and grief-stricken Peter Bogdanovich stopped sobbing uncontrollably while curled up in a fetal ball just long enough to direct one good... ... Full Article

Jack Nicholson ( The Two Jakes ) and Kevin Costner ( Dances With Wolves ) are just two recent examples of movie stars becoming movie directors. ... Full Article

In The Two Jakes , Jack Nicholson returns to the role of Los Angeles private eye Jake Gittes, and he looks...weary. This long-delayed sequel to Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) is set in 1948, 11 years after the first film. ... Full Article