Zodiac

March 23, 2007: Movie Review

Based on Robert Graysmith's book, Zodiac is the story of a serial killer in
the 1960s and 1970s. The movie however tells the tale of the zodiac killer
through media spectacle only randomly placing victims in cars and on the
sides of the road. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Graysmith who was working as a
cartoonist at the San Franscisco Chronicle at the time of the murders.

Although he plays a second hand role in the film, the conclusion to the story
ends with his definitive answer to the problem. With constant time jumping
scenes, the film still gets across the fear that the killings have
caused. With no concrete conclusions to end the tale, the most unsettling
thing about this movie is that the killer is still out there… somewhere.

~Emily Maloney ("Buzz" Reviewer)