Over Capricorn

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2007)

This is an excellent film whichever way you look at it and it certainly didn't feel like two and a half hours. I have to say that I knew nothing about the real events which the film depicts except for reading a couple of reviews since it opened her on Friday and catching a screening on Sunday. There are elements of All The President's Men in the painstaking and often frustrating piecing together of information and unlike All The President's Men the issue here is never resolved satisfactorily. The thing that stands out is not so much how many people Zodiac killed as how many lives he impaired amongst his pursuers in the police force and media. The actors are excellent right across the board and it would be unfair to praise one or two at the expense of another half dozen or so. The usual suspects in Multiplexes across the land may possibly de disappointed at the lack of gore, sex and violence and excess of intellectual content but everyone else should enjoy it thoroughly.