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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... Read more
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... Read more
Has real potential, but in the end, it's just too convoluted and long-winded
Dec 03, 2006
- Grann-Bach – imdb.com
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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... Read more
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... Read more
Forget it, Jake: it's not quite "Chinatown" (but still OK)
May 04, 2006
- Lee Eisenberg – imdb.com
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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... Read more
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.... Read more
It's not the classic Chinatown is, but it's a very good movie.
Aug 17, 2005
- gottogorunning – imdb.com
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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,... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more