Directed By:Jack Nicholson
Written By:Robert Towne
The Two Jakes
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Mixed or Average
56
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
56
41% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
53% Mixed
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6% Negative
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1 Review
88
Jack Nicholson's impressive, convoluted and moody sequel to Chinatown. [10 Aug 1990]
80
This is a worthy successor to Chinatown - full of ecological and geological insights into Los Angeles history that recall Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald and give a view of southern California that could have been conceived only by a native.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
43% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
50% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
7% Negative
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1 Rating
Apr 2, 2018
7
Continuation of the excellent movie Chinese quarter. The modern history is much simpler and more boring. And the movie from interesting characters except Nicholson only Harvey Keitel. And he isn't enough in a shot. As the sequel the movie isn't bad, but as it the independent work is very mediocre. It should be looked only if you lacked acting of the detective in Chinatown.
67
The Two Jakes is competent and watchable.
50
The Two Jakes is an interesting movie and audiences are predisposed to warm up to Nicholson the actor, but they may not be so charitable to Nicholson the director. [10 Aug 1990]
50
Towne doesn't weave all the elements as deftly as before, and his political observations seem secondhand.
42
The film as a whole is simply an interesting and amusing mess. [10 Aug 1990]
10
What The Two Jakes makes us long for most is the earlier film.
Aug 19, 2020
5
I love CHINATOWN, and this script has a few great exchanges that made the first film so iconic, but it just all seems so pointless...
