A slow burner serial killer movie that focuses more on "police procedural work"

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2017)

This is a slightly overlooked Fincher film that was very tense and totally engrossed me all the way through. For a serial killer mystery movie, what's so thrilling about it is that it defies all the typical Hollywood clichés for its genre, such as chases and blood & gore and sticks to the grounded reality tone with all the police investigative procedural work. It's a type of movie that feels like that it could actually happen in real life, which the movie indeed is based on for the subject manner and that's what makes it so scary for me.