"Zodiac" Suffers From Multiple-Personality Disorder
I only recently got around to seeing "Zodiac", last year's film about
the "Zodiac Killer" who terrorized San Francisco in the late `60s and
early `70s. The most memorable aspect of this film prior to my viewing
it had to be the controversy surrounding a certain blogger
plagiarizing an entire review directly from the San Francisco
Chronicle.
After seeing this flick, it struck me as being two or three different
movies in one. It starts out as a buddy-cop film, evolves into a
horror movie and then turns into a one-man quest to solve a crime. A
film with multiple personalities can be at turns pretty cool and
pretty confusing. I felt like "Zodiac" got lost in dismissing and not
following up on certain suspects, namely Robert Vaughn, played by
Charles Fleischer in possibly the creepiest role I've seen in recent
years. Jake Gyllenhaal's line, "Not many people have basements in
California," is the precursor to the eeriest scene of the movie.
A star-studded cast, a still-unsolved mystery, an air-tight pursuit of
historical accuracy, a dramatic story, an eye-pleasing setting ... it
would seem that everything was there for a wonderful film, but it
falls short. Part of that may be due to the fact that the "Zodiac
Killer" has yet to be definitely identified, so there can be no
conclusion per se. But it's also partly due to the idea that this one
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