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Yar, you be here: Chinatown > Customer Reviews Chinatown Customer Reviews (25 - 27 of 64 Reviews)A real film noir gem
This film sums up what film noir is all about. Style and form takes your eye and misleads you into thinking you know what's going on. Nicholson's Gittes character is fantastic - sure he plays the tough hard boiled PI but when it boils down to it - he is caught in a game far far greater than he can understand and the reality of the stakes involved only dawn on him at the very end. John Huston gives a lesson in how to be evil - that is you never show it on the surface. And Polanski's direction is as good as anyone in the history of cinema - his composition, his attention to detail and knowledge of how each character would play out the story. this is what great cinema is all about One Of The All-Time Greats
After "The Godfather", I'd have to rank "Chinatown" as the second best film of the 1970's. This is a masterpiece of acting(Nicholson and Dunaway brought their "A" game); writing(Robert Towne makes one forget how bad his "Shampoo" was); and, Polanski never made a better picture in his life. If you see no other film from the 70's, make sure you see "Chinatown". You won't be disappointed. Polanski's film-noir masterpiece!
"Chinatown" is one of the best movies of all time directed by one of the greatest directors of all time (who seems to go unappreciated): Roman Polanski. With great performances by Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson, it's no wonder why this film is a classic. The film is a great example of film noir, and it keeps you in suspense throughout the film. The story for this film is so brilliant that it could beat out almost any modern Hollywood film today. Jack Nicholson plays a detective on a murder case in Chinatown, but only to get caught up in a world full of deceit and corruption.This film has so many great epic scenes, such as the one where Jack slaps Faye for some answers. The ending is one of the best endings of all time.
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