2:38 Minutes of Sheer Hell

Rating: 1/10 (11 March 2007)

If you thought "Son of Sam" was bad, you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Oh heavens, was this "Zodiac" a BOMB? A bunker buster! Sure, the serial killings in the California Bay Area was tragic and for all I know, the killer might still on the loose but to torture the movie goer with nothing but a million aimless characters popping up all over the place, running helter skelter from building to building, from block to block, from car to car and each trying to thwart the efforts of one another in trying to find the ID of the maniac, and for CLOSE TO THREE HOURS, was unbearable. The dialogue was dreadful and the astonished look on the puss of Jake "Robert Graysmith" Gyllenhaal which is his natural look anyway, adds insult to injury. A cartoonist who looked like a cartoon character.Add to this, a drunken Robert Downey who's speech is so slurred and confusing, I didn't know if he was a sleuth or playing "Hamlet." The film is one big "MELOVAHESS." Boring, tedious, and annoying. Imagine, a cartoonist having better sleuthing techniques than the entire detective squads of major California cities! The only person to whom I'd recommend this film would be my worst enemy! So heed my words and keep those sheckels for another movie. You'll thank me a million times over.