thrilling, exciting masterpiece

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2002)

roman polanski's chinatown is a thrilling masterpiece, meticulously building up the terror and jack nicholson plays a typical noir detective to perfection, with his dry humour and the lines are great for any fan of raymond chandler.
chinatown starts off with what seems to be an open and shut case for the private eye, but the complicated web keeps getting darker and thicker as the suspense mounts. what makes this movie better than most is the complicated relationships between the many lead characters especially jack nicholson, faye dunaway, her husband and her father. this quartet form the basis of this thrilling plot, well there is someone else to the plot as well, but you will just have to see the movie to find out about that.
what this outstanding dark movie. why cant they make movies like this anymore? well polanski did in the 90s with his death and the maiden, which sadly bombed at the box office .... so ...
an exciting, thrilling 9!