metacritic.com: Zodiac, The

Starring Justin Chambers, Robin Tunney, Rory Culkin, William Mapother, Brad William Henke, Rex Linn, Philip Baker Hall, and Marty Lindsey

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

21 / 100

Critic Reviews

40	The Hollywood Reporter Few films have ever ended on such a low, anti-climatic note as The Zodiac.
30	LA Weekly Tim Grierson The Zodiac regurgitates a lifetime of police-thriller conventions, adding an aura of laughable solemnity in the hope of making the plot seem less banal.
30	Los Angeles Times Unfortunately, the film lacks the suspense and drama to carry the psychological burden placed on it by its makers. Plot strands are dropped like so much lint, and it ends so abruptly that you wonder whether the filmmakers ran out of money, ideas or both.
25	San Francisco Chronicle Although the movie doesn't turn the Zodiac saga into a slasher film, it has the look of a straight-to-video movie, or at best a Project Greenlight production.
16	Entertainment Weekly The Zodiac has been made with the dunderheaded flatness of bad '70s TV.