“Motherless Brooklyn” is the kind of knotty, ambitious, character-rich, politically conscious entertainment the studios so rarely get behind anymore, you can’t help wishing it were better.
An independently produced labor of love for its director and star, Edward Norton, that is being released in theaters by Warner Bros., it spins an old-fashioned detective yarn with a fine if unevenly deployed cast, a stylish but under-textured vision of 1950s New York and a sweeping indictment of racism, greed and big-city corruption.
It’s a pleasure to see Willis rocking a fedora and doing this kind of assured, laid-back character work, making it both poignant and genuinely disappointing when Minna abruptly exits the story in a haze of gunfire. He leaves behind a not-so-grief-stricken widow and a floundering agency whose other detectives try to move forward, leaving a devastated but determined Lionel to get to the bottom of Minna’s death.
The Moses-Moses parallel, like many particulars of the plot, was concocted by Norton, who freely adapted the screenplay from Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 detective novel. The 20-year gap between that book’s publication and this picture’s release speak to just how long the filmmaker has been nurturing this passion project.
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