Zodiac (2007)

This is one of those films I'd put off seeing because it deals with one of the few subjects I don't enjoy exposing myself to: true stories about serial killers. I feel like I'm desensitized to almost all gory ideas that can be portrayed on screen, but once I know that this happened for real, I try to stand clear (non-fiction violence is just not fun, which is why I'll never see the Karla Homolka film).
Putting that all aside this was a good film. It was very polish, and I really liked the cinematography and colouring of the film.
Acting was also well done. I really liked Robert Downey Jr's downfall, and Mark Ruffalo was good with the hot raspy voice, and Jake Gyllenhaal played the obsessive self-appointed detective well (even though I thought it got annoying, and just wanted him to go back to his wife).
I liked the scene when Mark Ruffalo tries to recreate the killing scene, at the scene with the taxi cab. Visually they make the taxi cab stand out, and everything else in the mise en scene is muted so that your attention is more focused. Framing was also really well done, with the handycam feel to it at parts.
People will readily compare this film to Fight Club and Seven (and other Fincher films), which is all fine and dandy in the world of auteur theory, but I feel like I enjoyed this film moreso when I wasn't jutzposing conventions that run through all his films. One element worth pointing out was in the newspaper office, the letters from Zodiac were blanketed on the walls, to show that he is haunting their environment, cool beans.
This film is worth checking out.