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A dozen years after Seven, director David Fincher again treats a serial killer, only this time it's a true story (adapted by James Vanderbilt from Robert Graysmith's autobiographical best seller) and not at all metaphysical. In some ways, for better and for worse, this is even more about Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal)—who became obsessed with solving the Zodiac killings that terrorized northern California in the late 60s—than about the murderer. I'm not convinced this had to be 158 minutes long, so it's all the more annoying when essential material gets elided (as in a sequence featuring an uncredited Ione Skye). But Fincher does keep this bubbling along, ably assisted by a cast that includes Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Chloe Sevigny, Elias Koteas, and Philip Baker Hall. R.
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Fincher adds a new and fresh addition to the over-used and cliched serial killer genre by working with Robert Graysmith's autobiographical account of hunting for The Zodiac Killer. In a sense, this film works better than Fincher's other serial killer drama Se7en, simply because it is all a true story. Accurate accounts of the time period and a non-bloody portrait of the manhunt help tremendously and hold our interest without regret for over 150 minutes.
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Man at the Movies
on 02/22/2012 at 5:42 PM
