The Two Jakes (Special Collector's Edition)
by Jack Nicholson
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Actor: Eli Wallach, Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson, Madeleine Stowe, Meg TillyDirector: Jack Nicholson
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Jack Nicholson
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Producer: Alan Finkelstein
Producer: Harold Schneider
Producer: R. Blaine Currier
Producer: Robert Evans
Writer: Robert Towne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Two Jakes (Special Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Muddled presentation of a good follow-up to a great movie
Summary: 3 Stars
Private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) coaches a cuckolded husband (Harvey Keitel) on the proper way to confront his wife (Meg Tilly) and her lover while Jake waits next door, taping the event for future use in divorce proceedings. Events take an unexpected turn when Jake's client produces a gun and shoots his rival, thereby making Jake a possible accessory to murder. That's just for starters. There will be many twists and turns involving real estate development, natural gas, and the persistent specter of the murdered Evelyn Mulwray and her missing daughter.
There is a very good movie here with complex characters and a fine conclusion, but I must count myself among those who found the script and direction somewhat muddled. When a long film presents a complicated story, it can be difficult to know which scenes were extraneous until the final credits roll, so I was left with the strong impression that the narrative should have been better focused without being exactly sure where it went astray, aside from finding many of the flashbacks to the previous film to be rather unwieldy.
Summary of The Two Jakes (Special Collector's Edition)
Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original" (Mike Clark, USA Today).Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone; 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth." And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky explodes into a murder that's tied to a grab for oil--and to Jake's own past.Set more than a decade after the story in Chinatown, this 1990 sequel brings Jack Nicholson back to the screen as L.A. private detective Jake Gittes. Older, fatter, worn, and frustrated, the Jake of 1948 is still haunted by the tragic events of the earlier film. While investigating a case involving adultery and questionable land dealings by an L.A. tycoon (Harvey Keitel as the other Jake), Gittes unexpectedly confronts a few old ghosts and discovers that the resource of choice in Southern California--one for which people die--is no longer water but oil. The film had a notorious production history, with Nicholson taking over the project from writer-director Robert Towne, and the dense plot can be difficult to follow. But if The Two Jakes doesn't measure up to the legendary status of its stylish predecessor, the film does satisfy on its own terms and brings the events of Chinatown to a moving conclusion. Terrific work by Keitel and supporting players Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, and Ruben Blades. --Tom Keogh
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