Thursday, October 9, 2014

The Zodiac (2005)


An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims.

Directed with style and with a good cast this movie describes bleak prospects to solve this murder mystery, but has been surpassed by David Fincher's take on the same story a few years later.

Maltin*1/2: "Earnest but flat examination...Well-defined feel of the late 60s is undermined by a bland performance by Chambers as a cop struggling with a puzzling case, made more intense by a panicked community and the ensuing media pressure. Film is as unsatisfying as the real-life status of these crimes."

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