Zodiac (2007)

I must say that I have heard and watched many shows with the real investigators and the real evidence long before even hearing that they were going to make a movie about this. I have not read the book, but I would guess it is quite suspenseful. I sat in the theater today watching as the men who worked on this case were dramatically represented by hard-working actors. The feeling of this film, I would call it creepy. I rarely am at all scared by things in movie, but the brazen way that the killer snuffed out the life of his victims, was definitely unsettling. The portrayal of the place and time period, the late sixties through the seventies, from San Francisco to Riverside, California, was believable. Jake Gyllenhaal successfully showed how his character, cartoonist Robert Graysmith (the one who wrote the book), became obsessed with the case to the point of forsaking everything else. The killer was taunting them, and there was nothing they could do about it. There are parts where there is almost complete silence, and the silence speaks for itself in the terror. This film was however a little too long, but I can overlook that because I was always interested. I must say that I am glad to see Anthony Edwards is still acting between times spent with his family. He’s a man who performs his craft well.

By the way, I won’t just be reviewing new movies, but I’ll try to review every movie I see.

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