If you watch Awakening the Zodiac in the hope that it will be half as good as David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), you will be disappointed. Some have called Awakening the Zodiac a thriller. It is not. I don't say that because it lacks thrills (which it does), but because it is a very bland horror film.

The idea of a couple tracking the Zodiac killer together is pretty good. But, then the first scene begins and the good ideas end. The script is silly, the pace tedious, the leads miscast, the acting a drag. Everything is just wrong. See, Mick and Zoe are a poor white couple who are barely scr... read the rest.