David Fincher's sixth feature potently blends the dynamics of the newsroom drama with those of the police procedural.
Zodiac (2007)
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Genre: Murder, Killer, Drama, Cops, True Story, Thriller, Serial Killers, 1970s, 1960s, Detectives, Murder Mysteries, Murder Investigations, Based On A Novel
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Anthony Edwards, Gary Oldman, Mark Ruffalo
Screenwriter: James Vanderbilt
Composer: David Shire
Producer: Arnold Messer, Mike Medavoy
DVD Info
Release:
Aug 1, 2008
HD DVD Features:
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 2.40
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Plus - English, French, Spanish
Additonal Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1.David Fincher - Director 2. Jake Gyllenhall - Actor
- 3. Robert Downey Jr. - Actor 4. Brad Fischer - Producer
- 5. James Vanderbilt - Screenwriter 6. James Ellroy
- Featurette2 - 1. Zodiac Deciphered
- 2. Blue Rock Springs
- 3. The San Francisco Chronicle
- 4.The Hall of Justice
- 5.Presidio Heights
- 6. Lake Berryessa
- 7. Obsession
- 8.The Visual Effects of Zodiac
- 9. Previsualization
- 10. Blue Rock Springs
- 11. Lake Berryessa
- 12. San Francisco
13. The Facts:
- 14. This is the Zodiac Speaking
- 15. Lake Herman Road
- 16. Blue Rock Springs
- 17. Lake Berryessa
- 18. San Francisco
19. Prime Suspect:
- 20. His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen
- Trailer - 1. Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Zodiac is that marvel and rarity, an adult Hollywood murder thriller.
A film of flailing loose ends, an epic of frustration. The suspense lies not in when the murderer is going to be caught, but whether, and how.
Encouraging the audience to draw their own conclusions, this moody masterpiece is up there with David Fincher's best.
Downey steals the show with yet another inspired performance, while his co-stars deliver solid turns aided by Fincher’s meticulous direction.
You sense that inside this meaty, 157-minute opus there’s a six-hour mini-series just itching to get out.
This is an intelligent, persuasively acted, superbly photographed film, with a subtle score by David Shire, who was chosen because Fincher admired his work on The Conversation and All the President's Men.
Zodiac is a thoroughly engrossing, brilliantly directed and superbly acted thriller that is quite simply one of the best films of the year. Unmissable.
Fincher’s most mature work to date will earn respect over time.
It is impossible not to enjoy Zodiac: if enjoy is the word for a picture so often scary and stomach-turning.
... this gripping character study becomes more agonisingly suspenseful as it gets closer to an answer that can't be confirmed.
Several bravura suspense sequences – can’t help but recall slasher convention.
Fincher is on top form: this is his best, most mature film yet.
Gone are the emphatic jumps and the flying-camera-through-the-keyhole style of "Panic Room". By avoiding the superficial scares he ends up creating a more devastating dread
Zodiac does a great job of showing three different paths (reporter, cop, cartoonist) in trying to capture a serial killer.
An all-star cast delivers in David Fincher's look into the investigation around one of history's great unsolved serial killer cases.
What makes this movie special is that really, not much happens. ,yet it's insanely gripping, even if someone is explaining discovery or flipping through a file.
Fincher, more subdued ... and aching for a return to smart suspense films from the likes of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula, pulls us by the collar into the frame and cranks the sense of menace taut without cheap tricks or cop-out gimmicks.
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