Zodiac (2007)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 219 Fresh: 195 Rotten:24 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus:
A quiet, dialogue-driven thriller that delivers with scene after scene of gut-wrenching anxiety. David Fincher also spends more time illustrating nuances of his characters and recreating the mood of the 70s than he does on gory details of murder.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 2, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $33,048,353
Synopsis: David Fincher's (FIGHT CLUB, SE7EN) adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book masterfully transports viewers to the Bay Area in the 1960s and '70s by drawing on actual case files from the notoriously unsolved Zodiac killer mystery. As a murderer with seemingly random targets starts sending... [More]
Genre: Detectives, Drama, Thriller, True Story, Killer, Murder, Cops, Serial Killers, Murder Mysteries, 1960s, 1970s, Murder Investigations, Based On A Novel
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Anthony Edwards, Gary Oldman, Mark Ruffalo
Director: David Fincher
Screenwriter: James Vanderbilt
Composer: David Shire
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
Screenwriter: James Vanderbilt
Composer: David Shire
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
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Reviews
Zodiac has us ponder the frustrations of a case that won't close up tightly like your weekly CSI.
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06/21/08
Gone are the emphatic jumps and the flying-camera-through-the-keyhole style of "Panic Room". By avoiding the superficial scares he ends up creating a more devastating dread
04/16/08
Zodiac does a great job of showing three different paths (reporter, cop, cartoonist) in trying to capture a serial killer.
03/03/08
It is not its lack of resolution that makes Zodiac a poor film, it is its stupefying dull progression.
02/28/08
An all-star cast delivers in David Fincher's look into the investigation around one of history's great unsolved serial killer cases.
02/02/08
What makes this movie special is that really, not much happens. ,yet it's insanely gripping, even if someone is explaining discovery or flipping through a file.
01/10/08
Fincher, more subdued ... and aching for a return to smart suspense films from the likes of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula, pulls us by the collar into the frame and cranks the sense of menace taut without cheap tricks or cop-out gimmicks.
01/08/08
Top Critic
... with this film [Fincher] detours from the graphic violence and depravity of Se7en and Fight Club to a more psychological realm of terror.
01/02/08
El mérito es principalmente de Fincher, quien se ha convertido en un virtuoso de las películas sobre asesinos.
11/05/07
David Fincher presents an intriguing and intelligent puzzle of a film.
10/18/07
Not until well into its second hour does it settle on a theme: the need to know the truth, and the dismal toll of that futile obsession.
10/18/07
Director David Fincher is an absolute master of psychological terror.
10/18/07
David Fincher's sixth feature potently blends the dynamics of the newsroom drama with those of the police procedural.
10/18/07
Zodiac is, as everyone says, an unusually complex and ambitious true-crime story, and (more important) a deeply engaging study of three obsessed men.
10/18/07
It is a fascinating snapshot of the efforts of those who devoted their lives to solving this haunting mystery.
10/18/07
Gyllenhaal always manages to present a person of some sensitivity without leaning on actorish resources.
10/18/07
Top Critic
Zodiac is that marvel and rarity, an adult Hollywood murder thriller.
10/15/07
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