Reviewed by David Levinson

EXTOLLING the sentiment behind Richard Connell’s short story, The Most Dangerous Game, the uncaptured Zodiac Killer, who, across Northern California drew a known body count of five (in addition to other, “inconclusively proposed” killings), explains that he kills for much the same reason Connell’s character does: “[B]ecause it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all...” The message is delivered via cipher to The San Francisco Chronicle, decoded by an elderly couple from Salina, Kansas, and, as far as psychological profiles go, is about all you’ll get in Fincher’s own hand-wringing of history’s threads (aside, of course, from one reporter’s suggestion that the killer is a “latent homosexual”).