Score: 50/100
Score on a par with: Sunshine 51/100; The History Boys 53/100; Cooperman Returns 53/100; The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe 55/100; Red Eye 56/100; The Dukes of Hazzard 51/100; Charlie & The Chocolate Factory 51/100; Cursed 52/100; Assault on Precinct 13 55/100; Matchstick Men 50/100; Jeepers Creepers II 50/100; Bruce Almighty 53/100; The Recruit 56/100; The Time Machine 53/100; K-Pax 53/100; A Beautiful Mind 56/100; Zoolander 55/100; Planet of the Apes 50/100; Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 52/100; Along Came a Spider 53/100; Meet The Parents 55/100
This was about a thirty-three year investigation by police and cartoonist into the Zodiac murders in California, filmed in real-time with a tone that was somewhere between the gentler bits of Pulp Fiction, Columbo, Scooby-Doo and Waiting for Godot. What began in a thrillingly stylish fashion, with some really smashing photography and excellent music, rapidly crumbled into an interminable paint-by-numbers seventies pastiche whodunit. It was a terrible mistake of the director to have his Columbo lookalike walk past a poster for Dirty Harry - this film was nowhere near the standard of either of them.
At one point the killer (who, incidentally, is never caught) writes that he’s still waiting for a decent film to be made about him. His wait is not over.
Operation Champagne. Pourqois pas?
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