If you asked me a month ago what my favorite David Fincher film was, I probably would have said Alien 3 (which, given the state of that franchise, doesn’t look so bad these days, I promise you). So, in this respect, Zodiac — that near-ubiquitous year-end fave — comes as a big and very welcome surprise. It still doesn’t rank very highly in my own estimation of the year’s best films (for example, I simply do not understand the point of all that CGI San Fran), but it’s wonderfully paced, brilliantly acted, and, at almost three hours, completely engrossing.
I suppose that last quality will largely depend upon whether or not you get the whole pointless obsessiveness thing — an appreciation which, according to a very limited polling of my friends, largely depends upon your gender. But no matter: Zodiac is still a cracking film, made even more unnerving by its very pointlessness.
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by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Brothers DVD
31 Dec 2007 1:44 PM | Submit Comment
