My personal favorite David Fincher movie

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2017)

Described as 'boring' and 'without a satisfying ending' by a friend of mine, 'Zodiac' is a brooding and bleak look into detective procedure. It's a bit like 'The Killing' in that way.
'Zodiac' is a faithful retelling of an actual murder case, based on a book written on the case by a reporter who devoted much of his life to studying it. The movie presents the mass of clues, the plentiful evidence and the various people working on the case in a clear and easy-to-follow manner, a daunting task which deserves credit. The case invites you to dive deeper and deeper into the evidence and make up your theories, and it can get you really obsessed, which is what happens to the characters in the movie.
Like the tagline says, 'there's more than one way to lose your life to a killer'. The characters are rarely in any actual danger - it's not an action movie. There's not any gunfights or car chases here. The danger is in getting your priorities in the wrong order, in trying to solve the unsolvable, following leads that take you nowhere, devoting you time to things that take you away from real life.
David Fincher is one of the best directors working today. In 2007 he hadn't yet partnered up with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the score department but 'Zodiac' still has that familiar Fincher thriller mood. Fincher soaks every scene in comfortable earth tones, making the movie very pleasant on the eyes, and sometimes there's good 60's pop music to listen to.
Definitely my personal favorite David Fincher movie (though I haven't seen 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' yet).