This fifteen minute documentary examines the use of CGI in David Fincher’s Zodiac. Fincher’s a director that I think understands how to use CGI really well, using it mostly in the background in order to recreate the San Francisco of the sixties and seventies. It’s mostly atmospheric and pretty seamless when it’s used this way as on a long bird’s eye shot following a cab or a scene at the crime scene in Presidio Heights. At other times, it’s a little clumsier. Fincher loves doing take after take after take, so he chose to utilize CGI blood because it wouldn’t really be feasible to have fifty copies of each costume and do costume changes between each take and such. So, I mean, I get it, but there are some moments that just really don’t look real, like the Presidio Heights shooting. The Lake Berryessa sequence though looks really good in terms of the blood. Anyway, if you’re into VFX and Fincher, you might find this bonus feature mildly interesting, but it’s pretty forgettable, all told. 2 stars.
tl;dr – Blu-Ray bonus feature explores Fincher’s philosophy of CGI; mildly interesting at best. 2 stars.