Zodiac Review

by: Michael Lee

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo
Year: 2007

Zodiac Was One Heck Of A Movie. It's A Mystery That Is Never Solved, Mainly Because The Real Life Zodiac Mystery Was Never Solved. The Thing That's Interesting about This Movie Is That It Is Real. There Actually Was A Psychopathic Creep Who Threatened To Blow Up Children On Buses And Kill One Person A Day Until He Was Paid A Ransom. It's Creepy. The Tagline Of This Movie Is "There Is More Than One Way To Lose Your Life To A Killer". That's Because The Main Character, Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), Spends His Whole Life Trying To Figure Out Who This Zodiac Charcter Is. It's Great To See His Character Transform From A Cartoonist Trying To Figure Out A Coded Message The Zodiac Sent To Police, To A Guy Obsessed With The Killer Much Like Jim Carrey Was To 23 In "The Number 23". Another Great Character To Watch Transform Is Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.). He Starts As A Prestigous Crime Reporter To An Unemployed Drunk. the Twists In The Moive Are great. They Give You Tons Of Evidence To How One Character Could Do It, Then They Throw In A Excuse That Takes Priority To The Evidence, And Your Stuck At The Start Without Any One To Blame. They Do This to A Few Characters, But they Always Go Back To One, Arthur Leigh Allen. It's Almost Like The Creators Of This Movie Believed It Was Him In Real Life. I did My Research, and The Scary Part Is, There Was So Much Evidence To Prove He Was The Zodiac, Yet The DNA On The Letters Didn't Match His (If Your Asking Why Don't They Use The DNA They Have To Track Down This Guy, They Can't, It's One Of Those You Can't Prove You Did It But You Can Prove Who Did Not Do It). But That Guy's Dead Now, So You Have No Worries In You Live In Northen Cali. Zodiac Is Elegantly Crafted And Thrilling. For A 180 Minute Movie, It Dosen't Disappoint.

8 out of 10 Nerdism Nerds.