Zodiac (DVD, 2007, Full Frame)

As a kid I remember hearing about the zodiac killer. So I could not wait to see this film. I was pleasantly surprised with the results.
Jake was great as the obsessed writer putting the clues together.
It was a little slow at times but the content overall made up for that.
The amazing thing is this was inspired by real events!
Today writers spend years weaving tails of serial killers none compare to the true story of the Zodiac Killer

Zodiac DVD starts killing of couple teens. San Francisco investigators start hunting for the killer. Clues offer nothing but ciphers and letters, those letter codes are left by the killer by using both hands to throw off cops. Long ahead start breaking down four cops, sexual images, drugs, killing extremes & language should be your first clue that this isn't a film for young child viewers.

Jake Gyllenhaal----- Mark Ruffalo----- Robert Downey, Jr.----- Anthony Edwards----- Brian Cox----- Elias Koteas----- Donal Logue----- John Carroll Lynch----- Dermot Mulroney.

Zodiac killer uses cat & mouse game with investigators leaving unparallel exposure to everyone. Zodiac Killer is anonymous, silent and intelligent, he never left weapons, finger prints or clues to his engagement to all pure evil killings. Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), Mark Ruffalo (Toschi) are struck on the complexity with quick killings to come.

This films unclear plots, 9 mm Luger, catch me if you can, behavioral profiling, 1969 San Francisco, serial killer stalker, prolific details all come in place on films adaptation.

Zodiac's slow pickup middle rated 4****. Full screen, color, 100 minute DVD.

My class mate was the surving boy from Blue Rock Springs and the girl that was killed was my best friends sister....I was raised in Vallejo and those were very scarey times with the Zodiac loose then...This story is very close to the facts.........

This is a movie about a killer who terrorised San Francisco with random murders during the 1960s and 1970s and everyone was looking for him for almost two decades. This is taken from real events.
The movie is a masterpiece and even if it is 158 minutes you will enjoy every minute of it.
Surely a must buy movie because you are going to see it many times without getting bored.
Great casting, great plot and very good acting from Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr.

"Zodiac" is a terrific thriller! It reinvents one of the most overused subgenre in all of American Cinema, the serial-killer. It does so not through overly obvious technique or even radical story innovations; but through subtle adjustments in perspective. Shifting the focus from the serial killer's methods and moral impulses (the approach taken by "Saw", "Se7en", etc.) and toward the tools used by reporters and cops tracking the murderer.
This moves "Zodiac" evolves another familiar genre; Police Procedure. Yet Fincher and screenwriter James Vanderbilt show so much disregard for Cop Movie conventions that their film ends up having more in common with "All the President's Men" than "Dirty Harry" — (even though "Dirty Harry" was based on the real 'Zodiac' case.)
The "Zodiac" Case made national headlines, partly due to the elusiveness of the killer and partly thanks to his method of making himself famous. Starting in 1969, the "Zodiac" wrote letters to San Francisco newspapers detailing his crimes, which consisted of random murders of apparently unconnected victims. The newspaper coverage made him famous, and inspired one of the case's most persistent investigators: Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist who became so obsessed with the case that he let it decimate his marriage while he followed leads for years. Graysmith's amateur sleuthing is just one thread of the story.
Fincher's drama follows not only the cartoonist but also crime reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.), and Cops Dave Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) and William Armstrong (Anthony Edwards). All four of these characters' stories intersect at various points in the film; but they also inspire subplots of their own that accumulate to create a vivid tapestry of 1970's America. Like the best of Scorsese, "Zodiac" succeeds both as a sweeping pop epic and an intimate character study. Even peripheral characters, such as a man who escapes the "Zodiac's" clutches, or a creepy movie nut who may have a link to the killer, have fully realized personas — they're better defined than the leads in most movies. And the leads here are riveting.
The Ruffalo, Downey, and Gyllenhaal characters are all strong enough to carry their own films, but joining their stories allows Fincher to make one of the best movies ever made about the ambivalent relationship between Law Enforcement and the Press.
"Zodiac" concentrates primarily on Graysmith's investigation, moving back and forth between storylines with great ease and clarity. The elegant story construction and Fincher's visual flair keep it from ever becoming static.
The movie is aggressively realistic, abandoning the logical, interlocking structure of most murder mysteries for a plot in which clues contradict each other, fail to connect, and sometimes just get forgotten about in the chaos that is Police Work.
If there's a dominant emotion; it's frustration; characters continually get close to the "Zodiac" killer, only to see the case evaporate before their eyes. "Zodiac" therefore becomes a film about smart, competent men failing — a topic that would have been somewhat acceptable in a prior era; yet feels almost revolutionary in 2007 Hollywood. Fincher manages to convey that sensibility, while placing it in the context of a compelling and fast-paced piece of entertainment.
2007: Zodiac Case to date...."UNSOLVED"
SEE THIS !!!! Won't disappoint !!!!

Zodiac is a suspensful movie that can get crazy at times. I still like the movie though. I am happy with my purchase and the seller accurately described the condition of the movie! I can't complain!

This is an excellant movie. I highly recomend it for any lover of true crime stories. I'd say more, but do not want to spoil the ending.

I am a major fan of Jake Gyllenhaal's and make it a point to see all of his work. Although the movie was a dark drama, it brought out needed information on just how our CIA works....shamefully. I was a young man when the serial killings occured and followed the media coverage with mixed feelings. First with revulsion, then with morbid curiousity over who this monster, "Zodiac" was. The fact that the case was never brought to a conclusion, was frustrating. The 'innocent' victim (who was horribly tortured), upon his release never even so much as recieved an appology from the CIA. "Zodiac" is a must-see movie by every American.

Rex Payne

I originally bought this thinking it was going to be like a documentary of the real Zodiac Killer, it was more like a Movie portraying the events that happened around the time of the Zodiac killer. It was too long, too dragged out, and too hard to follow. The ending was disappointing also. The acting was pretty bad throughout the movie, which I think added to the boredom of it.

I would not recommend this movie, and I wouldn't let a young child watch it, because of the stabbing scenes, etc in it.