Product: The Two Jakes [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 5.0
"That's the thing about the past..."
"...there's always plenty more where that came from."This movie was a critical and commercial bust, which was a terrible shame. It was lovingly made, carefully written, and beautifully shot.I guess people are less interested in reality. Here, Jake Gittes has become, arguably, a victim of his own success. His detective business is thriving, he's quite comfortable, drives a great step-down Hudson, and is surfing right over post-World War II malaise. And then the past reaches out to him...One thing: it was intended as the SECOND installment in a trilogy of films about southern California. "Chinatown" was about water, and this one was about oil. The third one was to have been about air...I hope that continued interest in these characters and frameworks will encourage the people behind these two fine movies to go forward with the last part before everybody becomes unavailable...