Lacks Focus

Rating: 6/10 (16 August 2008)

Fincher has certainly directed some classics such as Seven and Fight Club, so I came into this movie with high expectations. However he did do some things right. First off, the cast is fantastic, specifically Robert Downey Jr. Also, the movie transitioned well, considering how often it jumped time.
But somewhere during the process of making this movie, Fincher got too ambitious. The movie is too long, there is too much focus on too many characters and too much varying information given. At some point, it changed left the realm of entertainment and became a video textbook on the Zodiac killings. In the end, the movie had its moments; they were just too far spread apart.