Inept. No suspense. No thrills.

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2007)

Zodiac is being sold as a suspense thriller but it has no suspense and no thrills. It's really more of a police procedural but as such it is just inept.
One character is introduced as someone who may or may not have been an eyewitness having possibly ridden as a passenger in the Zodiac's car. Yet as soon as she is introduced, we never see her again in the movie. There are no scenes of her describing the Zodiac and how that description may or may not help the police investigation.
There's another character who is introduced who's handwriting is the closest match to Zodiac's handwriting on the letters that have been received by the Examiner. Yet after only one scene in the movie that character is never seen again. Why didn't the Graysmith character follow that up?
I'd like to think that in the real life case those two characters played a part in the Zodiac mystery. Yet in the movie they're chopped into the story and then dropped for no apparent reason.
This is clunky story telling, plain and simple. The movie just doesn't work and I found it to be a frustrating bore.