I have so many free time right now, even though it’s not my break yet. I just occupy myself with whatever movies that I got now. I hit Zodiac beforehand. The movie quality sucked (blame for the lousy pirated copy quality) and nothing prepared me for what I was about to face.
Zodiac is supposed to be a thriller movie. You know, something that brings you to the edge of the seat. Your heart beat gotten faster by the minute. Surely enough the story will catch you by surprise. Surprise! It’s not thrilling at all. It’s not lame though, just boring. So the story begins with the Zodiac who was a serial killer, committing his first murder. Surprising enough, there was a survivor. Months later, another victim falls into Zodiac’s hand. Yet another one survived the attack. The Zodiac was not good enough. He threatened to claim more victims but those are just blatant lies to shake off the police. This is how the Zodiac works. After murdering someone, he will report it to the police and even confess to the crime. However he was sane enough to not to give away his identity to the police. It’s like hit and run, just this time you tell someone about it. He also sent letters to the newspaper company which was San Fransisco Chronicle and also the police. In the letter, he told them his next move in the form of Zodiac code. It was surprisingly easy, given that you enjoy puzzles and stuff. This is a movie with puzzles, damn it! No thrill factor. No murderous rage. Just pure riddles needed to be solved.

Before Sudoku, they did Zodiac. They had fun.
Behold the person who cracked the Zodiac code - the first one was a housewife who enjoys solving puzzle. If Light, L, Near or Mello (from Death Note) managed to see this code, they would solve the code almost instantaneously. I was not enjoying the movie, not because of the puzzle. Instead I blame the approach of the story. They did managed to put some scenes of Zodiac committing his murder routine but those were not good enough. It’s just plain killing. No background story to it. Instead the movie makers brings the audience from the view of a cartoonist (what the…), Robert Graysmith. Yup, a cartoonist. He is the one who managed to solve the Zodiac case. On top of that, this movie was suppose to great and gripping considering the nature of the story being very factual. Did I told you that this is based on a real story? That there is actually a serial killer Zodiac? Guess what, it is based on true account told by the cartoonist himself, Robert Graysmith. It is actually based on the book about Zodiac authored by him.
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