"Zodiac" (2007) Directed by David Fincher

“I am not the Zodiac. And if I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you”.

A “based on a true story” tale of The Zodiac, and a serial killer in San Francisco of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Set mainly within the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper to whom The Zodiac sends his cryptic codes and cyphers, whilst also cutting away to additional evidence (for the audience in the main), and to the often very violent multiple killings of the mass murderer. But what’s crucial here is the time span involved, the frustration at the inability to solve the murders, to the character’s individual lives falling apart and failing, and often as a result of their failure to catch The Zodiac killer. A stellar supporting cast to the three stand out roles briefly noted below are Anthony Edwards who excels as local Police Inspector “William Armstrong”, Brian Cox as “Melvin Belli”, Elias Koteas as “Sergeant Jack Mulanax” and Chloe Sevigny as “Melanie”.

There are numerous further supporting and cameo roles, notably Dermot Mulroney as “Captain Marty Lee” and Philip Baker Hall as “Sherwood Morrill”. The three main characters are each dissected, slowly and surely with layer upon layer of detail which is painstaking at times, but this is very much a character film detailing their choices, decisions and actions sometimes at odds, often contradictory, but triumphantly so in the hands of Fincher, and his three stand out actors.

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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my original spoiler free review of "Zodiac" penned and published over a decade ago, transferred and updated on my Medium blog site and which can now be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site and original article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/zodiac-2007-a86805382b74

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