Overrated...

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2008)

At the end of last year when influential movie reviewers such as A.O. Scott from The New York Times were picking their top films of the year Zodiac was at the top of their list. So I finally watched Zodiac (not The Zodiac, I had made that mistake before) and I was disappointed. The cast was great and the acting phenomenal. The film was beautifully shot. You can feel the suspense as the Zodiac killer tracks down his victims and brutally murders them. But it was so long. Few films should be more than 2 hours (Godfather and a few other classics make the list) and this is not one of them. After the first hour and a half, the film felt endless and dragged on to boredom, just like the original Zodiac case did. So much of this film could be cut. We got it already, Jake Gyllenhal becomes obsessed with the case, there is no need overplay it for another forty five minutes.