The film centers on Sam Ellis , a man on the rise, a hotshot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. However, he starts to lose all sense of morality when he becomes addicted to using an escort agency.
Zipper is yet another political thriller laced with adultery, but despite Patrick Wilson's surefire performance, it's not a particularly interesting one.
[It] plays like one of those sections in certain House of Cards episodes that feel cheap and easy and trashy. For a minute or two it's fun, before it quickly becomes laborious and grating.