The worst thing about this film isn't that it's snatched a lot from 'Se7en', nor the fact that it's attempting to lure its audience with three big Hollywood actors in it.

The worst thing about this film is what a wasteful script it has.

This film tries so hard to be all that David Fincher aspired to when he made both 'Se7en' and 'Zodiac', but contains none of the emotive allure.

I got fairly excited when I saw actors from 'The Wire' and 'Oz' in this film, but nothing from the script excited me.

Don't get me wrong: I didn't expect this film to excite me. If it'd been like Tarkovsky's 'Stalker', I'd be happy. I'm not.

Rami Malek plays an investigator who tries to solve a serial-killer mystery. Malek has made his voice so deep that it irritated me throughout the film. Bar that, his playing mimics that from 'Mr. Robot', the TV series that made him fairly famous.

Denzel Washington seems disengaged, not caring about this film at all. He's like a ghost, in a bad sense of the word.

Jared Leto is quite the same as Washington.

The main three actors probably don't have to make another film for as long as they live because they're wealthy, so in a sense, yeah, they chose to act in this film. I can't tell why. Leto overacts and most of what they do feels implausible.

I will fault the writer, who also directed this boring mess of a film.

The script contains a lot of vapid and audience-punishing film noir wannabe lines, stuff like 'He decided to suck a twelve-gauge'.

People don't speak like that in real life.

Even if this is just a fantasy film, consider how other, much greater noir-ish scripts were written. See one of the big films that Humphrey Bogart starred in, and you'll see what I mean.

Compare this film with Dan Gilroy's 'Nightcrawler', a fim that Gilroy both wrote and directed, using far less money than 'The Little Things'. There was an atmosphere. It had grace.

The main men in this tale are almost Gods: they feel and notice things. They're supernatural, not to be compared with the po-leese we know from 'The Wire'.

Speaking of people, check out the non-people: women. They're poorly represented in this thing. They cook, entertain, are murdered. That's women for you.

This film reminds me of 'Get Out', in the sense that I feel like everything is constructed, that the people in it, the dialogues, the interactions, everything felt contrived.

Part of me wants to read the script to try and understand the minds of the people who financed this; I guess that the big Hollywood-actor names made up their minds, and not what's supposed to make this film.

Don't see this. See 'Se7en' or 'Nightcrawler' instead.