Long, uninvolved, dry

Rating: 5/10 (7 February 2009)

Slow, uninvolved, and unemotional, Zodiac goes on much too long at 2 and a half hours. The movie seems like 2 dull movies wrapped into one movie - (spoiler) first one being the cops trying desperately to adapt to the crazed media-loving killer, and the second one with the Gyllanthal character going on his own sleuth trail. Neither storyline builds any kind of suspense. It's more of a poor docudrama. This was what was happening at the time let's recreate the mystery....and the production seems to do a fair enough job at it. The director may have put in a painstaking amount of time on research, but nothing pulls you in - it's looking at events like reading a Encyclopedia - there's no shades of emotion or interesting character development. The actors all do a satisfactory job, but nothing above average.... So not really recommended at all. Only interesting thing was coincidentally that the settings were all identifiable to my hometown areas.