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Zodiac |  | Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  259 reviews
Sales Rank: 99490
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 157 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 7904323
UPC: 032429043238
EAN: 0032429043238
ASIN: B001AGNMJE
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Closer in spirit to a police procedural than a gory serial-killer flick, David Fincher's Zodiac provides a sleek, armrest-gripping re-invention of the crime film. It surveys the investigation of the Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay area in the late -60-early -70s; Zodiac not only killed people, but cultivated a Jack the Ripper aura by sending icky letters to the newspapers and daring readers to solve coded messages. But the film's focus isn't on the killer. We follow the reporters and detectives whose lives are taken over by the case, notably an addictive crime writer (a sartorially splendid Robert Downey Jr.), an awkward editorial cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal), and a hard-working cop (Mark Ruffalo). Fincher and his brilliant cinematographer Harris Savides are deft at capturing the period feel of the city, without laying on the seventies kitsch, and James Vanderbilt's script doles out its big moments to major and minor characters alike. Fincher's confidence is infectious; the movie glides through its myriad details with such dexterity that even the blind alleys and red herrings seem essential. The well-chosen cast includes unexpected people popping up all over: Anthony Edwards as a lunch-bucket homicide cop; Charles Fleischer as a mysterious suspect; Elias Koteas and Donal Logue as small-town policemen whose districts are hit by Zodiac; Chloe Sevigny as Gyllenhaal's sweet-natured wife; Brian Cox as the media-friendly lawyer Melvin Belli, so famous he once appeared on Star Trek; and the mighty John Carroll Lynch, as a supremely creepy suspect. The film is based on non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith (he's portrayed by Gyllenhaal), although Fincher and co. did extensive research on their own. The result is a propulsive whodunit without (thus far) an ending, but the uncertainty makes the film even more intriguing. --Robert Horton Beyond Zodiac 
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 157 minutes Rating: R
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 Zodiac Blue Ray March 17, 2010
Deborah Camille Mcnamara (Rio Vista, CA United States)
I love this movie and the extras are great. I had the dvd with no extras and not Blue Ray and it was like I was seeing a new movie. You must buy this in Blue Ray if you are interested in this movie. A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 Pick Off the Kiddies March 17, 2010
Rev. E. Antonio Hernandez
This is a complex film to review, because it is half good and half stink-bomb. There are so many sharp reviews here already--I shudder like wire mesh whenever I encounter a movie that has more than 30 reviews. But this one deserves attention.
Because now I think on it, this movie sucks nearly 80%. And here's why:
1. Jake, my boy, you will never be more than a tiny hair better than Keanu as an actor. Maybe this is the directors' faults, but you've had your chances!
2. Graystoke (just joking, Graysmith), the great but byzantine writer upon whose book this film is based--and who is played by Jakie Boy--was NOT the center of the Zodiac investigation. This movie would have us think that Graysmith nearly solved the damned case alone. All he did was write a book about it as a middle-aged man.
3. WHY is Detective Toschi, autopiloted as usual by Mark Ruffalo, modeled after Peter Falk's Lt. Columbo? Why?? He even yanks a boiled egg out of his raincoat pocket and proceeds to eat it when they are investigating the cab driver Stein murder. Is this supposed to be a comedy or what?
4. Why are fictitious creeps invented for this film as red herrings, when the real case had some enormously frightening and more interesting creeps who would have been loved by the camera? Actually, why is there so much invention and so little accurate fact here? I know it's a movie, but jeez....
5. The soundtrack: what's up with that??
What was great:
1. Reliving the 1970s. Jeez, I missed that. Not.
2. Seeing the crime scenes laid out, which otherwise is difficult to imagine.
3. Seeing the Zodiac's watch.
4. That's about it!
 Overlong and depressingly formulaic March 8, 2010
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
People say great things about Zodiac but they're apparently talking about a different film than the middling film I saw: after an energetic first half in which the threat of the Zodiac killer keeps the proceedings tense and quick-moving, the film segues into a cliched take on obsession, with all the usual beats in place (even Chloe Sevigny can't do anything with the nagging-wife-who-doesn't-realize-a-man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-go role) and a ending that doesn't conclude the film as much as just let it peter out.
2.5/4
Great movie an one of the worlds most infamous unsolved criminal. March 7, 2010
August Mozart (Palo ALto, Ca)
Great movie and very accurate as to what really happened, excellent period film of the SF bay area. The film could have been a little more in depth about the Zodiac and the crimes, but overall a great flick.
Zodiac (Full Screen Edition) March 6, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Robert Graysmith is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery, a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes obsessed with the case, as Avery's life spirals into drunken oblivion. Graysmith's amateur sleuthing puts him onto the path of David Toschi, a police inspector who has thus far failed to catch his man; Sherwood Morrill, a handwriting expert; Linda del Buono, a convict who knew one of the Zodiac's victims; and others. Graysmith's job, his wife and his children all become unimportant next to the one thing that really matters: catching the Zodiac. "Zodiac" may frustrate viewers who come to David Fincher's movie expecting a traditional serial killer thriller. Early scenes in this movie are shocking and, compared to the rest of the movie, disorienting, because they offer the only time that we come close to seeing events from the killer's perspective. Parts of "Zodiac" are intensely creepy. All of the actors deliver thrilling performances. I found it to be a great story told in a remarkable way, very entertaining, with great performances, and wonderful direction.
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