Classic police movie

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2014)

Roman Polanski's Chinatown is a true example of a classic police movie. The movie tells the story of a private detective named J.J Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson) who is hired to expose an adulterer named Evelyn Mulwray (played by Faye Dunaway) who ends up finding himself in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. The movie stars Jack Nicholson as Gittes who also specializes in matrimonial cases then gets hired by Mulwray to suspect that her husband i having an affair with another woman. Director Roman Polanski made this film turn out to be a success at the box office, this movie compares to police movie classics such as Dirty Harry, The French Connection, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, The Departed and many more. This film also has a kind of similar plot line just like John Huston's The Maltese Falcon but with Humphrey Bogart in the title role. The movie also stars John Huston as Dunaway's father, Burt Young, Perry Lopez, and John Hillerman. This movie is one of the v very best police movies ever made in the history of cinema.