In her piece about the film that ran in this newspaper last week, Courtney Lanning wondered aloud why the film was set in 1990. He probably knows that better than anybody. Hancock had a germ of a good idea but he ended up with an ordinary movie. It features three Oscar-winning actors and some nice cinematography, but the longer it goes on the less any of it seems to matter. I enjoyed-or at least maintained an interest in-the movie, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it. This doesn't mean that anyone is saying it's as good as these movies, it's just that if you're familiar with those films, this one might remind you of them. Some of the kinder reviews have compared it to some films from the era it depicts-its opening scene echoes one in Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs," and David Fincher's "Se7en" has also been suggested as a point of comparison. If you read anything about the movie, you're likely to learn that it is a period piece set in 1990, and that director John Lee Hancock wrote the script in the early 1990s. It stars Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto, and it's about a deputy sheriff (Washington) and a Los Angeles police detective (Malek) who team up to try to catch a serial killer (possibly Leto). A movie came out last week called "The Little Things."
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