Zodiac

Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay is written by James Vanderbilt, based on the 1986 non-fiction book of the same name by Robert Graysmith. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr., with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, Candy Clark, Dermot Mulroney, and Chloë Sevigny in supporting roles.

It tells the story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The case remains one of the United States' most infamous unsolved crimes.

Plot
In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It stays follow respect to the book and historical it is based on.
 * 2) Lots of the great performance for each, mostly Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr..
 * 3) Very neat musical score by David Shire.
 * 4) Amazing direction skills of David Fincher.
 * 5) Robert Graysmith, Insp. Dave Toschi and Paul Avery are a likable protagonist and does get the amount of screen time.
 * 6) Great quotes, such as "Suspect's negro male adult, who also happens to be a stocky, crew cut caucasian.", and "Hey Bullitt, it's been almost a year. You gonna catch this fuckin' guy or not?"
 * 7) Very creative twist where it used the Paramount Pictures logo from 1960s where it is old style, to make it accurate, while the film used the old Warner Bros. Pictures logo.
 * 8) Despite the runtime being too long, there is no boring at times.

Reception
Zodiac received a positive critical response, with reviewers' lauding the film's writing, directing, acting and historical authenticity. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 252 reviews, with an average rating of 7.63/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "A quiet, dialogue-driven thriller that delivers with scene after scene of gut-wrenching anxiety. David Fincher also spends more time illustrating nuances of his characters and recreating the mood of the 70s than he does on gory details of murder." At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B–" on an A+ to F scale.

In a 2016 critics' poll conducted by the BBC, Zodiac was ranked at 12th place in a list of the 21st century's greatest films.

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