Good thriller

Rating: 8/10 (28 March 2009)

I don't know a thing about the Zodiac case and in fact I hadn't even heard of the Zodiac killer before this movie, mainly because I'm not from the U.S. So given that, I could watch Fincher's "Zodiac" without much of bias in one direction or another, and for what it is worth, I quite enjoyed this chase of a killer, whose real identity was never confirmed to an absolute fact.
"Zodiac" is more of a story about obsessions and what it can do to a person, than a study of a serial killer. This is mainly because the real killer was in reality left unproven, so the movie follows more of the investigators and Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) than the prime subject of the case Arthur Leigh Allen (John Carroll Lynch).
The story is mainly well written and Fincher's direction is always good, which helps to forgive some scenes, that don't seem to serve much of a purpose in the larger scale.
All in all, a good, yet not superb, serial killer mystery.