Watch this movie! Really great!

Rating: 9/10 (27 April 2015)

I love crime drama and thriller films and I would like to reviews two of those crime-drama / thriller films and it is really cool. The first one is going be the 2007 film, Zodiac, directed by David Fincher and then I will review the 2013 mystery movie, Prisoners, directed by Denis Villenuneve.
Let's review ZODIAC.
Zodiac tells the story of the manhunt for a notorious serial killer who called himself the "Zodiac" who killed in and around the San Fransisco Bay during the late 1960's and the early 1970's, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting police with letters, blood staining clothing and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The cases remain as Northern California's most famous unsolved crimes.
David Fincher put together a very intense and suspenseful crime-drama / mystery film. I thought the acting was really amazing, our three main actors are really good, including Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal as Douglas Graysmith, who I thought was really great in his performance in this film. Mark Ruffalo, a.k.a. Bruce Banner / The Incredible Hulk in the Avengers movies and he plays inspector Dave Toschi, and he does such a great job. And also the man who plays Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr. as the role of crime reporter Paul Avery and he does really fantastic in this movie compared to him in Gothika, Iron Man, The Avengers and Tropic Thunder. The rest of cast was really amazing in the roles that they were in.
The pacing and the screenplay was really amazing and so fantastic, but the run time for the film -- at 156 minutes long -- it is really long and it tends to drag in a few areas, but again it works for this kind of crime-drama film.
The music by David Shire is really amazing and is really gritty and dark and they even add some old songs of the 1960's and the 1970's in the film's soundtrack and it sounds very awesome.
The visuals in this film are just simply incredible they re-created the 1960's version of San Fransisco, California and I do love the costumes that the actors wear and the production design that this movie had, it was really great and the film's theatrical release poster was really creepy when I first saw it and it was so cool when I looked at the poster online and the DVD cover and it is a really cool film.
I thought the ending was great, but David Fincher deserves a lot of credit for creating of the most memorable, critically acclaimed films of 2007 and that was a great thing. There is a director's cut of Zodiac on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc and to be honest, I have not seen the director's cut, but the original theatrical version was just amazing.
Overall, I love ZODIAC. It's a great crime drama story that I had no problems with and I have no problem re-watching ZODIAC again and again. Sure, the movie may have strong and intense brutal killings and language in it, but it has a purpose for being in the movie, which I like.
ZODIAC is a movie that needs to be seen by everyone, except for people who are very sensitive about what they watch. 8/10.