The cast is fine - Jack, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades - and Vilmos Zsigmond's photography is excellent, so it's a big shame.
Sunday 7 May 2017
The Two Jakes (1990 Jack Nicholson)
What went wrong with The Two Jakes? I read somewhere that Polanski worked so much on the Chinatown script that he could have been credited as co-author - in particular the very ending of the film in Chinatown was Polanski's own. And that I think is the problem. Robert Towne has forgotten to write any suspense, tension, mystery, action or drama into his script.
The cast is fine - Jack, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades - and Vilmos Zsigmond's photography is excellent, so it's a big shame.
The cast is fine - Jack, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades - and Vilmos Zsigmond's photography is excellent, so it's a big shame.
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