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Knut Morte

7Jan12

"The future Mr. Gidis, the future." Tomorrows profit...

Some damn fine film making, and perhaps the best director cameo of all time? this movie just oozes mood and cool. I'm not sure if Nicholson carries the film, he just seems so natural in the role. I also find myself wrapped up in the mystery each time, even though I know the secret. There are twists and turns galore and I love watching Nicholson chasing down clues. It's not over rated, it's just that good.

Dylan Jones

29Dec11

Olvidalo, Jake, es el barrio chino.

Robby Justiss

15Dec11

I liked it a lot...but its a bit overrated. Without Jack Nicholson this movie is nothing.

Nate B.

28Nov11

THIS is how you do a gut-punch ending, people.

Arisa

22Nov11

The score. Wow.

Daniela

12Nov11

Ending was good. The rest was just meh.

Tamuna Barbakadze

11Nov11

<3

Miasma

10Nov11

Currently re-watching this - in HD for the first time. The production design, the costumes, obviously the casting, the score, the writing, the editing. Everything about it is stellar. Is this the best film made by Paramount? By Hollywood?

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emina

6Nov11

this is good. Tapi durasinya bagi saya kelamaan, saya sampai kesel nontonnya karena lama sekali.

stoyanov

4Nov11

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown." Polanski's masterpiece is a timeless tale about the world we all live in.

Rusky

7Oct11

que toma la señor? un Tom Collins con limon

msmichel

5Sep11

One of the best produced american scripts ever. Robert Towne's masterful intrique is given full power by sharp direction by Polanski , cinematography by Alonzo and pretty much all artisans firing at full throttle. Nicholson and Dunaway perfectly cast with John Huston at his most memorable as Cross. A film that casts a spell on the viewer and challenges them to keep up. One of the very best films of the seventies.

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Ryan H.

3Sep11

One of the great screenplays, though it can't quite compete with the really great noirs.

zondabez

23Aug11

Polanski vivia em estado de graça com os EUA quando rodou 'Chinatown' em 1974. Em sua excelência visual e trama intrincada, apropriada do que chamaria clichês do cinema noir, o filme conta com uma atuação certeira de Faye Dunaway e NIcholson em sua versão jovem de canastrão. O diretor tem aparição, como nesse frame aqui, e me lembro de um dos curtas dele, 'break up the dance' (57), onde já mostra seu lado 'bad boy'.

Zappe

2Aug11

cbn

cinemasox

11Jul11

First saw this in 1976 in a 10th grade English class conducted by a visionary instructor and it altered my world irrevocably for the better. I still regard it as one of the four "every frame perfection", personal benchmark, early introduction to cinephile heaven films of my life. "Forget it, Jake, it's only Chinatown..."

Gaviero

11Jul11

An excellent depiction of the grim political history of LA's urban development (also an awesome film in other respects). Read Mike Davis' THE ECOLOGY OF FEAR for a greater appreciation of the shit Gittes gets himself embroiled in. www.foec.wordpress.com

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Christopher Taylor

8Jul11

My favorite thing about Chinatown will always be the fact that Nicholson, as Jake Gittes, is given ample time to walk around the world of this film in character. The mystery and suspense of this film makes it the legend it rightfully is.

Marcos Ordonha

4Jul11

Different and revolting. A great noir by Polanski.

Easton Dubois

12Jun11

I can forgive the pedophilia (not really) but can't forgive dull cinema.

Rashed

6Jun11

nicholson is legendary, dunaway is smoking hot, and chinatown is fun and amazing all at once.

Shelley

22May11

a great neo-noir directed by Polanski. Gittes was a clever, shameless private investigator who knew his way around LA. this was a quiet-paced, yet intense film which had twists at every corner. not my favorite film by Polanski, but still a classic. Jack Nicholoson is terrific here.

Dave

20May11

The momentum of the film isn't maintained all the way through, but when the movie is "on" it is truly is fantastic. Maybe not quite as good as its reputation, but it is close.

Posterocalypse

9May11

Pair this with Blowout for perhaps two of the bleakest endings ever put to film. Loved it!

ILoveCourtneyHate

24Apr11

I don't see how anybody who has seen even a couple of tame TV detective films such as Muder She Wrote, could honestly say this is anything more than 'quite good', let alone one of the great American films. The final sequence is brilliant, granted, but the rest of the film's lacklustre delivery and probably Nicholson's weakest performance on film just doesn't cut it. One of the most overrated pieces of cinema around.

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Stephen Campbell

30Mar11

Hold it Kitty Cat

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