I didn't like it

Rating: 5/10 (19 August 2008)

I don't know, maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just a little too slow for my taste. Maybe it's these type of movies that I've never been a big fan of. Reminds me of The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart. I watched that movie twice and really never understood what it was about. That was an overrated movie, just like this one. Although, I watched Chinatown just last weekend and I already forgotten nearly everything about it. It's so slow, that I lost the gist of the what story is even about. The storyline is just too convoluted. It is too dialogue heavy. Had the dialog been interesting, I could forgive that. The setting of Chinatown is the 1930s and it feels like it was filmed in the 30s. There are lot of 30s clichés. There's some suspense and ironic twists. But overall just too bland and boring. It's hard to believe Polanski directed this, because it has little in common with his other films such as Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, or The Tenant.