Filmfan-NL

It's hard to decide which aspect of this movie is worst, effects, cast, dialogs, camera action, script, direction, they're all competing so hard! Especially worth mentioning is Vanessa Angel, who must have just left the botox studio before this flick was shot. We had a lot of fun guessing who'd die next and who we wanted to die soonest. Unfortunately the body-count stopped at about ten. Why this film was rated 16+ here in the Netherlands beats me, it wouldn't scare my four-year-old nephew and there was not even the accidental nipple showing. Films of this caliber always leave me wondering who on earth voluntarily invest in waste like this, one can't imagine the revenue ever breaking even with costs, even with as low a budget as this one must have had. Waste of time, watchable only with alcohol and a lot of friends. (2/10)

The dark, grungy atmosphere that works miracles for Se7en fails to hit the target in Zodiac. There's just a tad too much unsolved mystery, an unfinished story line too many. I believe the film tries to feed the viewer too much information. The detailed facts which make the book exciting reading material distracts and takes the pace out of the movie. Perhaps the film would have benefited from a asynchronous sequence. Basically I spent most of the time waiting for something to glue me to the screen and it just didn't come. The high rating probably has more to do with Fincher's name being attached to the movie than its cinematic merits. I wonder if I was the only one begging for some lights to be turned on in this too dark flick. (5/10)