When Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon aka Deke is sent to Los Angeles it should have been a quick assignment to gather evidence, but he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer. The issue with this is that it is bringing up his past and something that Jim Baxter must then deal with.
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Deke certainly has a lot of issues and it takes quite a lot of time or the details to be revealed and that’s something that drags the whole film out in all honesty. The issue with that is we aren’t really given enough time to truly care about Deke or any of the other characters.
The way it portrays Albert Sparma and the possiblity that he is the horrific serial killer was quite intense at times and built up some suspense, but that never really went anywhere and was all just one anticlimax that we just quite frankly did not care about.
It does attempt to highlight that at times it is just not possible for some people to let things go and the fact that Deke is still so focused on an older case which has consumed him for a long time now, should have been so much more entertaining than it actually turned out.
The Little Things is a rather difficult film to get fully into and it took me two attempts to actually get through it all, which is a little bit of a strange thing given the fact that I absolutely love Denzel Washington. It seems to fall into that trap of loving the fact that it has three Oscar winners leading the film but then doesn’t actually give them the best material to work with which quite frankly is a shame. The running time feels so much longer than the 2 hours and 8 minutes.
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