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A determined California detective attempts to crack one of the most mysterious cases in modern crime as the tale of the fearsome Zodiac Killer comes to the screen in director Alexander Bulkley's cinematic account of the crimes that rocked San Francisco's Bay Area from December 1968 to October of the following year. As the citizens of the small California town of Vallejo prepare for their holiday celebrations, the discovery that two teens have been viciously gunned down at a remote lover's lane
Mar 17, 2006 Limited
Aug 29, 2006
ThinkFilm
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The Zodiac has been made with the dunderheaded flatness of bad '70s TV.
It has the look of a straight-to-video movie, or at best a Project Greenlight production.
The would-be psychological thriller devolves into a plodding domestic drama.
The B-team version of the story.
Have the screenwriters ever studied the concept of arc, how characters evolve from opening to closing credits?
Treats the unfolding murder spree like a routine police procedural.
I hate to waste my time seeing what I know is an incomplete work. Good filmmaking and story telling, though.
Whether you're a true-crime buff or just an average cinephile who enjoys a well-crafted film, you'll find something to like about Zodiac.
The Zodiac case receded into limbo, and Bulkley's film ends on an inconclusive and profoundly unsatisfying note.
It's two, maybe three different takes on the same subject duking it out for airtime, and the resulting struggle only leads to boredom.
We can only hope that his blood lust has been quenched.
Though The Zodiac is filled with a strong premise and taut atmosphere, Bulkley hardly ever gives us a reason to care for Johnny or Laura.
A B-movie with just enough heft and factual accuracy to lull us into taking it seriously.
Great case; mediocre movie.
A wan, pedestrian treatment of a notorious unsolved crime
Bulkley juxtaposes the benign ordinariness of Vallejo with the savagery of the crime, the wholesome landscape standing in sharp contrast to what happens when no one is looking.
It's a barely serviceable police procedural that has a harder time locating persuasive drama than its detectives do tracking down their man.
Impressive and unnerving, if uneven.
This movie was born under the sign of the mediocre.
A less-than stable script and some questionable performances keep it firmly in the realm of direct-to-DVD fodder.
Not as in-depth or graphic as David Fincher's version of the Vallejo killings and this one got a little boring at times too. But overall I thought it was ok and watchable at least. I do enjoy fact-based serial killer movies and I've seen a fair few and this was far from being the worst of them.
March 8, 2011
Super Reviewer
Not to be confused with the David Fincher masterpiece, THE Zodiac is utter shit. It apes said genius's work in the most generic and unapologetic of ways--all from the "let's get this guy" cop pep talk down to the cliched "problems at home when the cop becomes obsessed with his work and misses his own birthday" scene.
February 10, 2008Super Reviewer
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