Fincher matured: Zodiac

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2007)

One of the more interesting things about Zodiac is that it's laid back. This is a story that spans 20 years, with numerous reporters and investigators involved as well as a slew of suspects. You'd expect it to be complicated, probably overly so. Yet director Fincher let's the story flow simply. The perspective is the reporters, the detectives, and the victims. Fincher tells the movie like Graysmith wrote the book: a presentation of facts and observations. This lets the audience interact with the movie. As Robert Graysmith (Gylenhaal) is piecing the case together, so are we until the next revelation of factual evidence (which you will see was bare, but the amount of circumstantial evidence against a certain suspect was a mountain high). As most people know, the Zodiac was never caught. A big question in peoples' minds before seeing this movie is, "is there a resolve?" The movie provides enough brain food for you to come to your own conclusions and that's what makes it such a good watch.