Zodiac
The movie is well worth the price of admission for crime buffs although sadly all the violence is concentrated in the beginning.
Review by Sirus

During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s there were a series of, to this day, unsolved murders stretching all throughout the state of California. One man claimed to be responsible for the string of murders but never gave the police his real name. He communicated to the police through a series of letters he sent to various newspapers along with ciphers. In these letters the man called himself Zodiac and included information that was not released to the public. The story of the movie titled Zodiac includes all this and more but mainly focuses on one man, Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his unhealthy obsession with the case and its intricate details. Robert is a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle who happens to befriend one of the journalists who is running the majority of the press associated with everything related to the Zodiac killer. Robert has an interesting fascination with puzzles so when Zodiac sends ciphers to the chronicle, he is instantly drawn into this case over all others.

Jake Gyllenhaal does a great job portraying a man with such an obsession. The rest of the cast performs well and rounds it out nicely. The movie has a solid soundtrack but it barely gets above its purpose and feels almost formulaic at times. Running at 2hours 40minutes, Zodiac is quite lengthy and absolutely jam packed with information and story. The story can get slow at parts but never dull and when you get to the end, it can feel like there is another hour or so of movie to go. Zodiac is the kind of movie that will fascinate some and bore others to tears. The film’s advertisement team obviously knows what audience they are marketing it to by running clips during “Criminal Minds”. If you are a fan of any one of the large number of crime dramas on TV and are looking for a story that doesn’t give you any real answers as to who is really behind everything, then you can’t go wrong with Zodiac. The movie is well worth the price of admission for crime buffs although sadly all the violence is concentrated in the beginning. That being said, it is hard to make a movie that can captivate an audience on such a dry subject for almost three hours. Zodiac’s ability to do that is a feat in itself.

Final Score: 4.5/5 stars