Chinatown Review

Chinatown
"Chinatown" was a confusing, yet intoxicating film. On a four star scale I would give this movie a rating of a good three-and-a-half, and even close to, but not quite four stars. This was a movie that really kept my attention the entire time, partly because it was so confusing. If I didn’t pay close attention I would have had no clue as to what was going on in the movie. Considering all of the movies that we have watched in class so far, “Chinatown” was by far the best. I looked forward to watching it each day in class, and it kept me on my toes throughout the entire movie.
“Chinatown” takes place in the blooming city of Los Angeles in the late 1930’s. Jack Nicholson plays the part of Jake Gittes, who is a former Chinatown police officer, and now a private investigator. He is hired by a woman who claims to be a lady named Evelyn Mulwray, who is the wife of Hollis Mulwray, a controversial man in the water business. We soon find out that this woman who h...