The Little Things

The cast is decent, but I didn't like the movie, although the ending is not bad.

It's very similar to the movie Seven, but it's worse, this movie is very missing something, but I don't understand what. I watched it for the second time, keeping in mind the fact that I absolutely do not remember the first viewing

The Open final or the film itself is not bad, but I really do not like open endings

Well, I honestly expected a lot more, I really would like to at least give a hint of the real killer. We wanted to do it like in Zodiac, but unfortunately it didn't work out. And yes, as many people write, it incredibly resembles the movie 7 (where everything is very thoughtful, and the Hollywood cast is just the cherry on the cake of a great idea), but this picture could not be taken out only due to the excellent cast.

It's a normal, average one-time detective thriller. You watch and wait for the outcome, that in the end there will be some kind of shocking disclosure of the crime, there will be a missing girl, there will be irrefutable evidence of Sparma's guilt or innocence, and in the end the movie is about what fatal mistakes the police make when they lose their nerves from the horrors of what they see, and how they cover for each other in this situation.
I feel sorry for a girl who was accidentally killed by a cop! You think about the fact that she has parents who will never know the true cause of the girl's death. And how many more such situations are there?
Regarding acting, the whole movie felt like Rami Malek was overdoing it. Why was he initially shown to be such an unpleasant character? And his sufferings and emotional hardships did not take away, I do not believe it! Jared Leto, on the contrary, is beautiful in his image! The role of a maniac suits him very well!) Although my husband did not like his gait, he said that it was already an extra feature, they were focusing too much on it, and the image turned out that way.
As for the murder of Sparma, you can't stop comparing it to the movie Seven, where the criminal also drives the cop. But Seven, of course, is a completely different level of film.
Another remark from my husband - that the soundtrack is out of place in places) The song At Last especially hurt my ear. If the soundtrack usually fits in seamlessly, and sometimes you don't even notice it, then this song stood out sharply as something foreign. Although in my opinion, this is a good way to show sunny Los Angeles by contrast with what is happening in the shadows, which ordinary people do not even suspect.
The understatement about Sparma's guilt didn't bother me at all, either, unlike my indignant husband) I believe that this is the director's right, and in general, the film is not about whether he is guilty or not, but about what baggage the forensic police carry, what ghosts of the past haunt them.