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List Price: $36.99Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $12.00 (32%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0097361313245
Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Running Time: 162 minutes
Sales Rank: 1982
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Closer in spirit to a police procedural than a gory serial-killer flick, David Fincher's Zodiac provides a sleek, armrest-gripping re-invention of the crime film. It surveys the investigation of the Zodiac killings that terrorized the San Francisco Bay area in the late -60-early -70s; Zodiac not only killed people, but cultivated a Jack the Ripper aura by sending icky letters to the newspapers and daring readers to solve coded messages. But the film's focus isn't on the killer. We follow the reporters and detectives whose lives are taken over by the case, notably an addictive crime writer (a sartorially splendid Robert Downey Jr.), an awkward editorial cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal), and a hard-working cop (Mark Ruffalo). Fincher and his brilliant cinematographer Harris Savides are deft at capturing the period feel of the city, without laying on the seventies kitsch, and James Vanderbilt's script doles out its big moments to major and minor characters alike. Fincher's confidence is infectious; the movie glides through its myriad details with such dexterity that even the blind alleys and red herrings seem essential. The well-chosen cast includes unexpected people popping up all over: Anthony Edwards as a lunch-bucket homicide cop; Charles Fleischer as a mysterious suspect; Elias Koteas and Donal Logue as small-town policemen whose districts are hit by Zodiac; Chloe Sevigny as Gyllenhaal's sweet-natured wife; Brian Cox as the media-friendly lawyer Melvin Belli, so famous he once appeared on Star Trek; and the mighty John Carroll Lynch, as a supremely creepy suspect. The film is based on non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith (he's portrayed by Gyllenhaal), although Fincher and co. did extensive research on their own. The result is a propulsive whodunit without (thus far) an ending, but the uncertainty makes the film even more intriguing. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "Titwillo, Titwillo"
As a person who was mesmerized by Robert Greysmith's book, I did not think any movie production based on the same events could compare. I was wrong. This is a wonderful movie, if you like true crime productions, and mind boggling even if you don't. As a young Army wife who took a two week TDY to SF, I found myself staying in an el cheapo motel right next to The Presidio where Zodiac, who was still active, had done some of his most heineous handiwork. I was frightened and always looking over my ... Read More
Rating:  - Dear Editor, This is the Zodiac Speaking
The worldview of Director David Fichner has always been a dour and dark one. From his first big splash of the wildly underrated Alien 3 and the the genre redefining Se7en, he approaches the noir of details like few others. However, this attention to the underbelly takes a toll on "Zodiac," a serial killer film that spends more time on the soul killing of the killer's trackers than on the killer itself.
The movie is basically a two-parter, with the first detailing real-life San Francisco ... Read More
Rating: - GOOD STORY, SLOW MOVIE
3 1/2 STARS - I remember the news reports when I was a kid growing up in Sacramento and remember how uptight and worried my parents and others were. When I watched this movie I was so into the story but the movie seemed to be a bit boring and slow. At least they did not HOLLYWOOD it up too much and add unreal blow um up action scenes. True real life really is boring so this movie was about right on. I watched it and dug it but I can't see watching it again...maybe in a couple years i'll see it again. ... Read More
Rating: - Overly long but a decent flick
There was no way Zodiac needed to be as long as it was. It dragged not long into it, though I really tried to embrace this film. It is a very dry type of film with a lot of different timelines and confusing aspects to keep track of. There is almost too much going on, but at the same time, there really is no actual action. There is some suspence and mystery, but for a film and true life event where there was no acual ending, it didn't really matter. There is alot of facts, but also alot of speculation and ... Read More
Rating: - Zodiac Revealed
Zodiac (Two-Disc Director's Cut) [HD DVD]
This review refers to HD-DVD 2-disc edition set. Movie is sort of documentary type trying to accurately portray Zodiac killings from late '60s. It is pretty long at 2:42 minutes and somewhat boring. Killings occur within first hour while speculation and bogus theories continue until the end. Movie is based on the book Zodiac written by Robert Graysmith, cartoonist who worked at the time of killings at SF Chronicle newspaper. His findings about Zodiac ... Read More
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