Engrossing film. Kodos to Fincher!

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2007)

This film is long at over 2 hours (nearly 2.5) but I was not bored at all during this very engrossing film. It was also kind of gritty. You got a sense of the realism of it all. It's like "Ya, I'm watching a real movie." It just feels like a true story. It starts off with some violence that is excellently portrayed. It really sucks you in. This jumps you straight into the hunt for the Zodiac character, which is where you'll meet the cast of newsies and some cops on the case. God I love Robert Downey. God bless the dude for hanging in there with his excellent career. They guy is good. So were Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo. OK so the plot thickens as we see what this Zodiac can do and how he operates. There are a few scenes that can get you squirming in your seat, like at the park but it only solidifies your desire to see that this peace of work gets what's comin to him. As you move through some time lines, quite a lot of time actually, you start to think that this guy may never get caught. It's freakin depressing. You'll feel for the Robert Graysmith character and Inspector David Toschi, especially Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal ) who at times is in a near frenzy to bring this guy to justice, nearly single-handedly. I'd love to say more but this is the type of movie that it seems like anything you say will give away too much. I can tell you its long, excellently made, acted and directed. Gritty and engrossing describe it best I think.