A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.
Again props are directed towards ronnie for first directing this movie to my attention I believe. It was a little long but a great investigation into the Zodiac killer. Jake Gyllenhaal, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., and Mark Ruffalo (yes, romantic comedy "superstar" Mark Ruffalo) were all enjoyable. I'm really happy for Robert Downey Jr. as he's been in some pretty decent movies in the past couple of years including: Gothika, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Good Night and Good Luck, A Scanner Darkly, Zodiac and next year's Iron Man. As for Mr. Fincher, I'd rank this as my third favorite film of his behind Fight Club and Se7en.
