scary parts scary, a lot of filler

Rating: 7/10 (21 March 2007)

The scary parts involving the zodiac killer where very suspenseful in a Hitchcock sort of way, but there were only three or four such parts. The director should have made it a horror movie because it was intense without having the gore or disturbing images that are so common today. The rest of the movie was interesting, but after about two hours of Jake Gyllenhaal talking with various people about the zodiac it becomes a little repetitive. Also, the movie took place over several years and there were about 30 times where it jumped such as "5 minutes later"...."40 seconds later"....."3 years later". It becomes quite confusing. All in all, fun, but not provocative and much too long.