Talk about some heavy-hitter actors! And they do well with what they are given. But the constant slamming us with pop music from the era grated on me quickly, by minute 12 (I always wanted to die to an "appropriate" Donovan song...not). That nearly made me turn it off, but I suffered through, never ending the wish that they'd hired a composer to write original music instead of doing what they did.

I've seen lengthy documentaries on this case which are far more interesting and fact-filled than this was. The case is an odd one. The fact they put in tiny print at the end "but DNA evidence revealed it couldn't have been who Graysmith thinks it was" negates the meaning of the plot and the power of the movie. It's interesting how other lives can be ruined by such a case--newspaper reporters and detectives didn't fare well and probably died, in some cases, younger than they should've because of their connection with Zodiac. And the movie does a good job of showing that.

Best scene was when they confronted the suspect, and they passed around the watch. Everyone in that scene nailed the subtleties of acting it. For a moment, I thought they were cops, not actors.. Robert Downey Jr gets to pretty much play himself.

Louis Joseph Myers is probably a better candidate for Zodiac, but of course they bought the rights to this book, and so the movie had no reason to talk about that, not reality.