Dir: David Fincher
Writ: James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith
- Jake Gyllenhaal … Robert Graysmith
- Mark Ruffalo … Inspector David Toschi
- Anthony Edwards … Inspector William Armstrong
- Robert Downey Jr. … Paul Avery
- Brian Cox … Melvin Belli
This is based on the true story of a serial killer in the 1970’s in California who highlighted his murders with cryptic letters to newspapers. He killed at random, and called himself The Zodiac, and wrote his letters in a code. He also often sent bloodstained items of clothes along with these letters as a sort of proof. He was never caught. Robert Graysmith was working as a cartoonist at one of the newspapers where the letters arrived, and became caught up in the case. The film is based on his book of the events of the time.
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As a film I don’t think that this was anything special. It was entertaining enough, but both Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard are better than the film. The relationship between the pair is really what is at the heart of the film, the rest is simply the set-up.
And this is fairly understandable, considering that the film is based on the memoirs of Swofford. Of course as a film about war, and Iraq it does have a political message, if you want to see one. If you don’t you can ignore all that.
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