Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, and 6-year-old Danny Lloyd all do great work in their roles as well. Set in the sprawling Overlook Hotel isolated by winter weather, Jack Nicholson performs a tour-de-force descent into insanity. Critic Philip French of The Observer summed up the reaction in his review, writing "The verve, dramatic propulsion and sense of evil that informed Polanski's 'Chinatown' is largely missing from 'The Two Jakes.' But it is, for all its murkiness, an intelligent, enjoyable noir thriller." Whether the film's lukewarm reception was to blame or not, "The Two Jakes" wound up being the last film that Nicholson helmed from the director's chair. Even still, plenty of critics found it worth watching as long as you went in with lowered expectations. Though the film was moderately well received, fans of the original "Chinatown" were in for a bit of a disappointment as most critics agreed that "The Two Jakes" didn't come close to living up to the legacy of the original film. Similar to the first film, "The Two Jakes" finds the private eye protagonist getting caught up in another complex crime, mystery plot, this time involving murder, adultery, and oil mining.
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"Chinatown" was initially intended to be the start of a trilogy, but the full series never came to fruition. Gittes and replaced Roman Polanski in the director's chair, while the screenwriter of the original, Robert Towne, returned for the sequel. Nicholson reprised his role as private detective J.J. Released in the 1990s, "The Two Jakes" was a long-belated sequel to "Chinatown," one of Nicholson's most highly acclaimed films, made in 1974. However, despite having all the ingredients of a great film, it still wound up as a misfire with most Rotten Tomatoes critics considering it dull and lifeless. "The Last Tycoon" undeniably had a wealth of talent behind the camera, with a script by Harold Pinter, the three-time BAFTA winner and two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter of movies like "The Go-Between," "The Pumpkin Eater," "The Betrayal," and "The French Lieutenant's Woman." Meanwhile in the director's chair was the two-time Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan, the man behind classics like "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire," and "East of Eden," amongst others. The impressive cast also features the likes of Robert De Niro, Donald Pleasance, Anjelica Huston, John Carradine, Tony Curtis, and Robert Mitchum. Similar to "Man Trouble" and "The Fortune," "The Last Tycoon" is another film that features an incredible gathering of talent both in front of and behind the camera but for whatever reason sadly fell short in execution.
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