MOVIE REVIEW: We put Denzel Washington s latest, The Little Things , under the spotlight
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Jared Leto Struggled to Recover From Dark Place He Fell Into When Filming The Little Things
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For most of its duration, the just-released crime thriller
The Little Things plays like a traditional whodunnit? as two cops, played by Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, hunt for a serial killer, ultimately zeroing in on Jared Leto s sinister appliance repairman.
Then, things take a turn. After Leto s Albert Sparma lures Malek s Jim Baxter to the desert, the cop kills the suspect, a murder which Baxter and Washington s Joe Deacon cover-up. The two policemen get away with the crime, while the viewer is left in the dark as to the identity of the killer. I always felt there would be a section of the audience that would prefer a very formulaic ending and there s nothing wrong with that, says writer-director John Lee Hancock (
30 Jan 2021
The Little Things only pretends to be a standard procedural about the hunt for a serial killer. In the end, it’s about something much bigger and well worth your time.
In just five years Joe “Deke” Deacon (Denzel Washington) went from the LAPD’s top homicide detective to a lowly Kern County sheriff’s deputy; from a man with a wife and daughters to a man living alone in the middle of the desert with a dog that refuses to stick around.
Something happened. Something terrible. Deke’s beyond haunted, and when he’s sent to Los Angeles to pick up some evidence, this lowly errand is not only another indignity reminding him of how far he’s fallen, it’s a return to the very precinct where everyone knows his dark and shameful secrets.