4/6/2024 0 Comments Zodiac 2007 reviewsThe self-titled Zodiac killer murdered at least seven people, four men and three women, in California between December 1968 and October 1969, mostly by shooting but at least once with a brutal stabbing. It depicts the above with slick polish and is often intriguing, but an uneven pace and the inevitable open ending will frustrate some viewers not strongly interested in the subject matter. To this end, Zodiac is a bit like a souped-up, two-and-a-half hour episode of Law & Order, and will appeal to some of the same audience fascinated by the details of police procedure and investigating. Based on a true crime book by Robert Graysmith, it puts the focus not on Zodiac himself, who remains a shadowy, elusive, nameless and faceless figure (although the movie’s viewpoint is blatantly slanted toward one suspect), but on the men (including Graysmith himself) who were involved in the long-running, ultimately fruitless manhunt. Rather, it’s a police procedural and docudrama. While it tells the true unsolved story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers–at least that which is publicly known– Zodiac is not a thriller, at least not in a conventional sense. CAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Philip Baker Hall, John Carroll Lynch
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