In this suspense thriller focusing around a Psychopath killer, we are thrown into a cat mouse game with the police and media jumping at every little hint or letter. This thriller Directed by David Fincher, is a marathon of a movie that goes through the hunt of Zodiac. The police work for years going from one lead to another, suspect after suspect. The whole time this murderer is sending letters and encrypted messages building his fame and fear. Once the case goes cold, a cartoonist, Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) picks it creating an unhealthy and desperate search for truth. With David Fincher as the pilot of this movie it took many twists and turns all incredible dramatic, intense, and suspenseful. Movie captures your mind during whole time because, your solving the case as well, you see the evidence, make theories. You are the third person detective and you have your own favorite suspect. You see the truth one moment and on to the next big scoop the next.
Fincher creates thrill and suspense through the breakthroughs in the case, during each and every murder, or with every new letter. During the murders, Fincher creates a quit still. He gives the audience just enough to know their will be an attack. He shows the Zodiac acting as a robber or good Samaritan wile in our world we find ourselves yelling at the screen to run, he’s going to kill you, we get angry that they won’t take common sense and run from a murderer, but then we remember it’s a movie and we can’t do a thing. The leading roll mostly in the end but in the beginning as well a little was Robert. He takes a new look at this psycho. A new look, you can see the intense passion. Fincher did an amazing job progressing this character from the Eagle Scout he was to the obsessed truth seeker he becomes. You see the slow transition and it’s like a train wreck in slow motion. Robert loses his family, job, and life outside the case. He must know the truth and the truth comes at a scary cost.
We see Fincher’s poetic style with suspense and mystery in this film. Fincher gives us multi-laying plots with 5 manhunts in one for the same person that rarely mix. He is able to keep on the edge of your seat for 2 hours and 37 minutes, always looking for the next clue towards unveiling the elusive Zodiac. He shows the brutal killings in a vivid realistic way that places you right next to hem with a chill down your back and thought in the back of your head that at any moment that maniac would turn his dark and desolate eyes on you, and you would be the next notch on his belt. You couldn’t help but find yourself walking in the movie and believing you were there and that’s the David Fincher trademark.
