![]() This is one good-looking film, seeming far more expensive than its £20m budget. One, all the hard-boiled dialogue and shadowy sleuthing works much better in an older setting, where Essrog can’t just use Google to solve his case. ![]() The book was set in contemporary Brooklyn, but Norton shifts the setting back in time to 1957, a very smart choice for two reasons. When Frank is killed on a job, Essrog vows to find his murderer and wades his way into a mess of governmental corruption and racism in New York. One of the few people who believes in him is his boss, Frank (Bruce Willis). His affliction means most people write him off, even most of those he works with. Essrog is a private investigator who suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome. Read more: Edward Norton calls Marvel “cheap” for scrapping his ‘Hulk’ sequelīased on a 1999 novel by Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn is centred on the very unattractively named Lionel Essrog (Norton). ![]() This is only the second film directed by Edward Norton (his first, Keeping The Faith, was in 2000 and was only OK), but it does not feel like the work of a filmmaker still learning the ropes. It takes its sweet time, prizes character over action and lots of people wear hats. ![]() It’s an old-fashioned film, which is not meant as any sort of insult. If you spend your Sunday afternoons curled up in front of old black-and-white movies, Motherless Brooklyn will probably be right up your street. ![]()
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