Take a good story and tell it well, and you end up with a good movie

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2014)

David Fincher is so damn inconsistent.
It is astounding that the man who directed some of the biggest abortions in Hollywood history:

Alien III

the vile and laughable remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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was responsible for this masterpiece!
It is, however, believable of the man who directed Fight Club, and helped produce a good chunk of House Of Cards and The Hire. I'm really looking forward to Gone Girl - I hope it's one of his 'A' game movies and not one of his 'B' game ones.
Zodiac has a great cast:
Robert Downey Jnr plays the same character he always plays - but we love him for it, he's a star not an actor. Mark Ruffalo is his classic Angryman, but it suits his cop role perfectly. But Jake G - the man delivers yet again, playing the autistic cartoonist lead perfectly.
As I say in the subject, it just goes to show: take a good book or any good story, and then just try to tell it as well as you can (good direction upon a good cast), and lo and behold you end up with a good movie.
And truth always trumps fiction!
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