My Review

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THE ZODIAC takes a different look at the famous Zodiac Killer case from other screen treatments of the murders. More than a simple crime story, the film is an emotional thriller focusing on the murders' impact on victims, their families and the wider community. The film follows a police detective (Chambers) from "Grey's Anatomy", and his son (Culkin) who become obsessed with the murders and endanger their family in the process.

This movie also stars other TV show stars of current drama, such as Robin Tunney from "Prison Break", William Mapother from "Lost", Rex Linn from "CSI: Miami", and Philip Baker Hall from "The Loop".

What touches me most perhaps is that it took place in the town I grew up, The Bay Area of California. Sure, it happened long before I was born, but the fact he was never caught is haunting to a child, whose imagination reinvents in timeless fashion the monsters of yesterday's endless mysteries.

Chambers plays a detective who is in over his head. Perhaps if the FBI were more involved early on he might have been caught... I guess we'll never know.

A film with decent acting, pacing, music, overall feel is like those suspenseful thrillers I used to see as a kid on tv, and I always enjoyed that personable feeling, almost like no one is in character but just feeling out the story that stays true to the real life mystery we were all left with in the reality of The Zodiac.

My rating: 6.5 because it failed to draw the characters in, sadly so little was ever discovered about the Zodiac that there wasn't a lot to go on going into the picture and that hole is painfully clear in the end result.

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