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As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession f...( read more 
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MCT:May 12, 2008Many ppl say the movie is boring long but i disagree. This film provides me the reality of an investigation of a thrilling crime. David Fincher, still one of my favourite directors
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MCT:May 11, 2008it's alright. but way too long for a film where you already know that nothing happens at the end. having said that...rdj. in a suit. with interesting facial hair. what more could you want?
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MCT:May 11, 2008This is by far David Fincher?s best work. This is a film on the level of All the President?s Men because like that film it is basically a dramatizing of the events. The case is never solved, but that doesn?t mean it doesn?t have a satisfactory ending. The film?s pacing is thrilling and never lags as we, the audience, are bombarded with information, evidence. It is wild and will have your head spinning, but the best thing the film does is it keeps you in suspense from the start to the closing credits.
The film opens with the first, discovered, murder and then shortly afterward with the second murder. They are fast and brutal. Fincher wants us to believe and be afraid of this killer, the Zodiac. It works and each scene that is brought up in this fashion, somewhere away from one of the main character, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr., has us on the edge of our seat anticipating that death, but Fincher is yanking our chain now, or at least some of the time. He has us expecting a death/murder, but he teases us with perfectly formed conclusions which achieve naught and slowly we are being drawn into this obsession which has grabbed each of the three main people involved in attempting to solve the Zodiac case.
Obsession is the name of the game here. Each character becomes so enraptured in bringing this malicious killer to justice that they don?t care for their own safety and spiral downward, until they either destroy themselves or are taken off the case. This same thing was done quite well for the first part of Brian DePalma?s Black Dahlia, but unlike that film it doesn?t make the mistake of trying to solve the case with some Hollywoodized ending or one where the murder is brought to justice. While the final scenes, offer a sense of closure they aren?t definite.
Each of the characters is fleshed out nicely before they spiral downward and apart. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Robert Graysmith, the newspaper cartoonist who happens to be knowledgeable about code breaking, he goes to the library. Graysmith is a single father at the beginning who doesn?t drink, smoke, or do much of anything out of the ordinary. He?s a basic boy scout, which he admits to. Mark Ruffalo plays Inspector David Toschi, the man officially on the case from the beginning when it moves to San Francisco jurisdiction. He?s a soft spoken man with a veteran?s approach to case and newly wed. Finally Robert Downey Jr. plays Paul Avery, the newspaper reporter who becomes the other great authority on the case along with Graysmith and Toschi. At first together, and later separately these men taken on the haggard look of a Zodiac victim, meaning, they have unshaven faces, drooping eyes, and a major obsession with the case. They may not realize they have become victims, but they truly have in destroying their lives to take down this killer. Only their efforts may not have been in vain, but then we will never know for sure.
The film is a fantastic docudrama which thrills, and plays with your mind as you too become an obsessed with bringing down the Zodiac who you thoroughly despise by the end of the film. The final shot with Graysmith is almost triumphant feeling after the fear and destruction witnessed for the 158 minutes the film runs. This film has set a high benchmark for the rest of the film of 2007. -
MCT:May 10, 2008
It was a little too long, but the excellent cast and creepy vibe (thanks David Fincher) made it really great.
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MCT:May 7, 2008
I loved this movie so much I bought it. I had read the book that this is based on a long time ago and was happy that the movie follows it pretty closely. Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. give great performances, so does Mark Ruffalo.
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GoodPossumposted 94 days ago -
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This wasn't very good, i acutally stopped watching half way through cause it was so boring!
posted 199 days ago -
Fincher's worst.
Very ambitious, but flawed. Scenes are mishandled, have the wrong tone, and have bad acting. Their are some bright spots though.
As usual in a Fincher the cinematography and editing are top-notch. Gyllenhaal is kinda bland in the beginning, but comed alive and is great in the last hour and a half. Robert Downey Jr. turns in another great performance. Mark Ruffalo is great as well. John Carroll Lynch and Brian Cox also make the most of their appearances. Plus, the film has two of the most terrifying sequences I've ever seen.
Despite this, the weak beginning lingers so much, that the film couldn't be elevated to great status.posted 238 days ago -
In the movie zodiac.. Who is the guy sitting in a van type truck with bloody hands and kinda blondish hair.. this movie was a blast, I thought it was interesting from start to finish. One other part that kinda' had me thinking was when robert graysmith is with the guy who "played organ at the theatre".. was this a hint that there was more than 1 killer or just an old weird guy getting his kicks scaring poor young jake?/lol.. anyways, thanks for the replys in advance...
posted 281 days ago -
Just wait next year for the uncut version of Zodiac dvd. I really hope to see it trough, just for watch the reall survivors interviews..
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I've always found Fincher to be an excellent,but basically technical,filmmaker-it's all precision aesthetics,no substance.Barring that,he makes kickass eye-candy,and I like his movies in spite of my "better judgment"--he's like Ridley Scott with less interesting scripts to work with."Zodiac" is well worth seeing,though.I guess it bombed at the theatre partly because of the great glut of serial killer movies of late,and two(maybe three) other versions of the Zodiac saga having been made in the last coupla years.
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