Issue 155

Review: Zodiac

14th May 2007

It's OK. You're all excused from a moment of giddiness and debilitating excitement, David Fincher, director of Se7en and Fight Club has a new film coming our way. Zodiac is a suspense thriller based on the real life events of the 'Zodiac' serial killer which stays commendably loyal to the truth.

Finch has a knack for bringing the best out of previously questionable actors, note please the example of old chisel chin Pitt (Brad to his friends), and he looks set to do it once again with the ever broody Jake Gyllenhaal who promised so much in Donnie Darko, and delivered so little in The Day After Tomorrow.

Brian Cox and E.R.'s Anthony Edwards add to the impressive male orientated line-up, while Robert Downey Jr. continues to be in every film he possibly can since supposedly putting his crack and booze days behind him; one can only hope he continues to exhibit the firecracker form he's so effortlessly flaunted recently in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly and Good Night and Good Luck.

Zodiac will be gracing our screens in just a few days, and if it's anything near the quality of Finch's two previous nourish masterpieces, we'll be in for a dark, gruesome and oh-so-bloody-good gem of a film.

James Hay