After a short period of alpha hostility, sniffing, and territorial boundary-marking with Jimmy Baxter (Rami Malek), the new, young, talented detective filling Deke’s old position, they both realize they share an obsession for perfection. One thing leads to another, and, oops-fresh murders with the same signature as the old murders, start happening.

Currently working as a Sheriff’s deputy in a nearby county, Deke happens to be back in LA tying up some loose ends for his new boss and runs into old colleagues, who invite him for a quick coffee and some gossip.

This particular one murdered many Los Angeles street prostitutes. What case? Who couldn’t Deke catch? A highly intelligent serial killer, of course, the kind that give detectives heart attacks. Which domino-effected into a Deke-divorce and a major heart attack. When Deke was on an extremely similar case, it drove him to a level of obsessive nuttiness that resulted in a massive mistake, which then needed to be swept under the department rug by his superiors, and also, naturally, necessitated Deke’s dismissal. Detective Jimmy Baxter (Rami Malek) talks to the press, in “The Little Things.” (Warner Bros.)

It does feature a decent Denzel Washington performance, but the rest of the movie functions like a pair of ill-fitting trousers that he has to keep hiking up, so as to avoid having to walk around with them down around his ankles.ĭirector John Lee Hancock gives us a thriller with the hoary plot of Joe Deacon (Washington), a banished homicide detective returning to surreptitiously mentor a younger detective (Rami Malek) and help him finish what he, “Deke,” started. Secondly, it’s a classic January movie, meaning it’s mildly meh, and you might want to miss it.

Firstly, it’s our first review since the beginning of the pandemic to more or less coincide with the movie’s release date. This review of “The Little Things” checks a couple of boxes. R | 2h 7min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 29 January 2021 (USA)

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