Zodiac Review - Daniel Stewart (Headliners)
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jake Gyllenhal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.
Rated: 15
Currently released on DVD
A movie that I thought I would be very interested in watching but which I didn’t get to see in the cinema but later when it came out on DVD this month. Even with all the critical acclaim I was more bitterly disappointed than thekid you always see in Woolworths that cries when the damn thing doesn’t get whatever sweeties it wanted.
The film is Zodiac and simply it didn’t fulfil its potential. The film is about the notorious 1960’s/70’s Zodiac killer from the San Francisco Bay Area that terrorized the San Francisco community with killing five known victims and taunting the police with letters and cryptic messages the killer sent to them which were published by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The movie follows the timeline of the known Zodiac killing but more so of the cartoonist that works for the San Francisco Chronicle, Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhal, who becomes obsessed as the years go by, even becoming determined to find out who the killer’s identity is even when the cryptic letters have stop, the police stop bothering with the case and the Zodiac has become yesterday’s news. The film is based on the book that Robert Graysmith had written on Zodiac from all the information that he had kept and gathered throughout the years.
With a strong cast that also included Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo, the fact that it was a true story and the uneasy fact that the Zodiac killer was never caught which would make you watch your back as you get into your car at night, should have given this movie an edge over mediocre and gory or yet pointless horror movies of recent years, but it didn’t. It could have given you that uneasy feeling of without needing the traditional scares mixed with a topic not only could happened in real life that would make it gripping, but did actually happened, the stuff that makes a truly great thriller, but it didn’t. It could have been a lot of things, but it wasn’t.
Yes there are some moments that put you on the edge of your seat as the case unravels, but there few & far between. Apart from the murders, nothing really happens in this movie. They think someone is the killer, they talk about it, they talk about it, they try and get a warrant for a house search, they cant, they talk again about nothing. Jake Gyllenhal has a good performance as a man who was not involved in the police investigation becomes obsessed in his trail of the killer with the information that he receives but this thriller doesn’t thrill.
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Jake Gyllenhal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr.
Rated: 15
Currently released on DVD
A movie that I thought I would be very interested in watching but which I didn’t get to see in the cinema but later when it came out on DVD this month. Even with all the critical acclaim I was more bitterly disappointed than thekid you always see in Woolworths that cries when the damn thing doesn’t get whatever sweeties it wanted.
The film is Zodiac and simply it didn’t fulfil its potential. The film is about the notorious 1960’s/70’s Zodiac killer from the San Francisco Bay Area that terrorized the San Francisco community with killing five known victims and taunting the police with letters and cryptic messages the killer sent to them which were published by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The movie follows the timeline of the known Zodiac killing but more so of the cartoonist that works for the San Francisco Chronicle, Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhal, who becomes obsessed as the years go by, even becoming determined to find out who the killer’s identity is even when the cryptic letters have stop, the police stop bothering with the case and the Zodiac has become yesterday’s news. The film is based on the book that Robert Graysmith had written on Zodiac from all the information that he had kept and gathered throughout the years.
With a strong cast that also included Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo, the fact that it was a true story and the uneasy fact that the Zodiac killer was never caught which would make you watch your back as you get into your car at night, should have given this movie an edge over mediocre and gory or yet pointless horror movies of recent years, but it didn’t. It could have given you that uneasy feeling of without needing the traditional scares mixed with a topic not only could happened in real life that would make it gripping, but did actually happened, the stuff that makes a truly great thriller, but it didn’t. It could have been a lot of things, but it wasn’t.
Yes there are some moments that put you on the edge of your seat as the case unravels, but there few & far between. Apart from the murders, nothing really happens in this movie. They think someone is the killer, they talk about it, they talk about it, they try and get a warrant for a house search, they cant, they talk again about nothing. Jake Gyllenhal has a good performance as a man who was not involved in the police investigation becomes obsessed in his trail of the killer with the information that he receives but this thriller doesn’t thrill.
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