One of the finest mystery-thrillers you're ever going to come across, David Fincher's Zodiac is a masterwork of meticulous research, painstaking craftsmanship & precision detailing which approaches the police-procedural sub-genre in an incredibly authentic manner, plus the level of accuracy it manages to maintain with the real-life investigative process turns it into an instant classic right away.

The story of Zodiac focuses on the manhunt for the notorious serial killer whose killing spree occurred around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s to early 1970s & who used the alias "Zodiac" in his letters to newspapers, which also included ciphers. The film covers the life of investigators & reporters who become obsessed with the case in their search for the murderer.…

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Paranoia thrives in the dewy mist of San Francisco while Evil wanders loose, and although Zodiac crafts traditional scares and deliberate suspense around its massive runtime, Fincher's masterpiece sends chills down the spine because it's true. David Fincher shoves the viewer into a maze with several beginnings and no ends, and the mystery arrives like a mailbox after a month of vacation.

Fincher has always had a knack for artificiality within intensely human stories, but in Zodiac, every character feels like a personal construct that lives outside the frame. Every actor takes their particular material and crafts something even more glorious out of already wondrous writing. As a result, the world of Zodiac has an immaculate contrast between sympathetic…

David Fincher has made many exceptional films. His attention to detail — from his camera movements to the use of blood — is the thing of legends. But the mystery-thriller ZODIAC finds Fincher at his very best, executing a real-life story that lacks a satisfying conclusion with absolute precision and excellence.

Working from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, who has never written anything this good before or since, Fincher takes the listener through the tension, fear, and mayhem that surrounded the Zodiac Killer's murder spree in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Jake Gyllenhaal excels as Robert Graysmith, a neurotic cartoonist who becomes obsessed with the case. Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo round…

The bits where this is a procedural with Mark Ruffalo running around being serious in ugly ties it's pretty well done good fun! And it looks great, all Fincher-y blues and yellows and everything looks dark all the time. But when this is a serial killer movie and we see the Zodiac stalking and killing people which is maybe only three or four scenes, it sucks. In these scenes it looks and feels like any number of amateurish slasher films, the ones that are prurient and nasty without being any fun about it. And I find this doubly insulting since firstly, making a gross entertainment out of, you know, real murders where real people died is pretty iffy at the…