Efficient

Rating: 7/10 (21 September 2010)

A thriller without real action from times to times is something pretty rare, I guess because it's hard to maintain people's attention (and also because this action remains on catching the bad guy, which is obviously absent here). 'Zodiac' does this trick: proportionally long to the investigation, it however keeps you interested all along. The reconstitution of the timeline is one of the other good points of the film. Fashion, characters, San Francisco: everything evolves while the investigation treads water. Finally it's a nice description of how sometimes people vest with their job as if it was a mission. So stubbornly they lose everything else which made their life so far. The question is why, what are they avoiding. And the film doesn't answer to this. But it doesn't pretend to do it either, so fair enough.