All the same, what may have been bleakly original way back then isn’t now. Hancock wrote the first version of this script in 1993, a couple of years before “Se7en” was completed. In fact those tonal resemblances are misleading. Fincher’s recent “Mank,” which is drawing-room comedy by comparison, but his definitively dark and intensely memorable “Se7en,” with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as a veteran and a rookie tracking down a depraved serial killer. Why have we been hurled back into David Fincher territory? Not Mr. That’s more than a disappointment, it’s a bafflement. For the most part, though, consider this a case of serial crime and unusual punishment. Daylight intrudes from time to time, and a person of interest, played by Jared Leto, finally appears toward the end of the first hour-he’s interesting because he’s eerily playful as well as potentially criminal. John Lee Hancock’s crime thriller, set in 1990, is steadfastly glum, a two-hour-plus tour of eroded souls, nighttime freeways, sinister streets, dark alleys, fetid rooms and female corpses perforated by stab wounds. It’s the little things that get you caught.” But the big things are important too-like giving the audience something pleasurable, enjoyable or minimally entertaining to relieve the encompassing gloom and the bilious palette. ‘The Little Things,” in theaters and streaming on HBO Max, takes its title from advice that a veteran cop played by Denzel Washington gives to a young homicide detective played by Rami Malek: “It’s the little things that are important, Jimmy.
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