Zodiac

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2007)

David Fincher is back in the serial killer genre. With "Se7en" he delivered one of the masterpieces of thrillers. So the expectations for another serial killer film of him are almost unattainable. But Fincher is a smart boy and knows that and so he went into a completely different direction, which was about the cleverest thing he could do. In "Zodiac" he plays with the expectations of the audience. He starts the film with multiple killings, but he didn't shoot these scenes the way you would see them in a thriller, he uses a very unexcited and more observing style. Often the film is called a thriller, but I don't really see where this is coming from. There are definitely frightening scenes (like the one in the house, where you hear footsteps above), but it is more a character drama, or as Fincher sometimes calls it in interviews, a press film. With "Zodiac", Fincher proves that he is really a director who can do anything (well, we haven't seen a Fincher-comedy). Before I forget it, great actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo,