Zodiac: Unusual. Does it Thrill?
When thrillers are confused for loud noises, destruction, wild chases,
extra-terrestrial and super-human, here comes David Fincher who gave
us Seven, The Fight Club and The Panic Room with his latest offering -
Zodiac. You wait to get thrilled, gripped by panic and fear, but
nothing happens till the end. You dont realise that you have watched a
three hour American movie. Is it an anti-climax?
That is Zodiac for you. A really long movie on a serial killer, who
called himself Zodiac, killed people for more than a decade in the Bay
area of San Fransisco in the 60s and 70s and sent letters and
cryptgrams to police and newspapers. A committed and curious few - two
police officers and two journalists - follow the cold trail, day and
night, for several years and almost lose their lives to them. As the
tagline of the movie says, there is more than one way to lose your
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