Chinatown has always been know as a timeless classic and yet I had never watched it. What a mistake that was as this film is a Noir masterpiece with the likes of Nicholson, Dunaway and John Huston at their very best.Jack Nicholson plays a private investigator who stumbles across a murder that is in someway connected to the water conspiracy happening at the same time in LA.
This is classic film Noir with regular characters like the femme fatale, the dumb cops, the hard nosed dialogue and the shootouts. Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson and writer Robert Towne three very talented individuals and could be argued owned the 70's when it came to Hollywood movies have put together probably the best private eye movie ever made with Robert Towne receiving an Oscar for best script.
This was by no means an easy film to make with Polanski reportedly throwing a cup of urine over Faye Dunaway during filming. But Jack and Faye give great performances and is easily Polanski's best film. If you want to see Noir at it's best then look no further then Chinatown.
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