I also liked the movie more... but the ending left me pissed.
It was typically Hollywood when the elderly oligarch/villain is shown disappearing into the sunset/moonlight with the girl we’ve been told is his daughter and who he raped when she was 15... and the concerned Nicholson character is told: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
AND to add to that message the pedophile Polanski directed this!
I’d forgotten Polanski directed that. Is he equating Chinatown with Hollywood?
He also married Sharon Tate.