First off, I’d like to start with an apology to anyone who actually reads this page, judging by the lack of comments, I’d suggest that apology isn’t needed. But in-case anyone does actually care… I haven’t gone off film in the past few months, either, I’ve had more important things to pursue, or I just couldn’t be bothered to write about the films that I’ve watched. But now I’d like to think that it’s going to be a return to form.
This week I began the catch up on 2007, the first film i stuck my teeth into was ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ which was a great finish to a great series of films, I also watched the latest Cronenberg flick ‘Eastern Promises’ which was also really enjoyable… not quite a great film, but very close and better than ‘A History of Violence’ in my opinion. Today though, I finally got around to David Fincher’s ‘Zodiac’ which has left me nursing an absolutely massive boner. The reason that I’d held off watching ‘Zodiac’ was it’s two hour ,thirty seven minutes running time, but let me assure anyone that the film flew by as if it was only ninety minutes. I’m not quite sure how to describe ‘Zodiac’, it’s some where in between Thriller, Horror and Drama, it follows the life of cartoonist ‘Robert Greysmith’ while he juggles his time between drawing for the San Francisco chronicle and trying to solve the Zodiac murder case. The film features an epic story line lasting over twenty years from when the zodiac murders began in the late sixties to the late eighties. Great performances from Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey jr. and Mark Ruffalo hold the film together while David Fincher’s beautiful direction is just a wonder to watch.
Both ‘Zodiac’ and ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ have managed to force Danny Boyle’s ‘Sunshine’ further down the list of my favourite movies from 2007. Anyway, if you are the sort of person who enjoys, murder mystery, thriller, horror or drama of any sort, then take it from me ‘You could do a lot worse than Zodiac!’ watch it now,now,now…
P.S Films rock in HD!
