Product: The Two Jakes [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 2.0
It's All About The Script...And There Wasn't One
CHINATOWN was and always will be one of my favorite movies.The shame of this sequel is that script never came together. In fact, I remember reading about the feud that ensued between Jack Nicholson and screenwriter Robert Towne over the production of this movie. Nicholson complained that Towne left town without finishing the script and actress Meg Tilley was quoted that she could remember feeling the heat from just-copied pages fresh from a copy machine having just been thrown together.The acting and directing are there...but the story is not.Big disappointment.