In a case involving the informant named Jake Gates, who was used to investigate the case of adultery. Jake reveals the existence of a murder plot by a thief, in addition to many other issues, including the privatization of water through government corruption and the use of land, real estate and criminal cases of the regime. Jake may be threatened if he does not immediately drop the case, facing threats of legal action, but he is still following those issues and slowly unveiling a broad conspiracy.
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May 18, 2016
As private investigator Jake Gittes, hired to dig up some dirt on Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer of Los Angeles's water department, Nicholson saunters round the city delivering one-liners with offhand brilliance.
March 27, 2009
Polanski's film suggests that the rules of the game are written in some strange, untranslatable language, and that everyone's an alien and, ultimately, a victim.
February 09, 2006
The hard-boiled private eye coolly strolls a few steps ahead of the audience.
January 18, 2013
As much as I admire the work of both Polanski and Nicholson, I found Chinatown tedious from beginning to just before the end.
August 05, 2003
In 1974 a director, a screenwriter, and a producer (Robert Evans, who for once deserves a few of the plaudits he's apportioned himself) could decide to beat a genre senseless and then dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy.
January 04, 2013
Polanski's telling of his tale of corruption in LA is masterly - thrilling, humorous and disturbing at the same time - and brilliantly played by John Huston and Faye Dunaway as well as Nicholson.
January 03, 2013
See this film as many times as you can. Please.
January 05, 2013
This film is flawless.
February 04, 2014
Chinatown is deliciously, intolerably cruel as it toys with us.
January 03, 2013
Unmissable.
March 27, 2009
Roman Polanski's American made film, first since Rosemary's Baby shows him again in total command of talent and physical filmmaking elements.
May 20, 2003
A new private-eye melodrama that celebrates not only a time and a place (Los Angeles) but also a kind of criminality that to us jaded souls today appears to be nothing worse than an eccentric form of legitimate private enterprise.
