Review of Zodiac (2007) by Bill H — 11 Nov 2012

Zodiac is 2007's first masterpiece (and so early into the year), a brilliant, compelling, frightening, thrilling and intelligent crime drama, spanning over two decades of searching for facts, most notably unearthed by cartoonist Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.

The film is like a mesh of All the President's Men, Summer of Sam, and a lil' bit of SE7EN, as it focuses more on the investigative portions rather than bastardize the story like how a typical Hollywood film would do, ie: center around the killer.

We've seen that before, done as horror films. Zodiac could have been easily done as a Silence of the Lambs-rip off, but David Fincher just sticks to the original source. An epic 2 hour, 40 minute length, the film doesn't wane or bog itself down.

.. it grabs ahold of you and never lets go. More terrifying than a typical horror film, and more intriguing than the crap we've been bombarded with over the past year (The Number 23? Puhleeze!) Don't miss this film.

Fincher's best. Journalism, obsession, and horror all laid out, and how it came to define these men. A great film for any aspiring journalist/writer, one of the reasons why I treasure it so (and the obsession part, too, for personal reasons).