The plot springs to life when his beloved boss and mentor, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis), is bleeding out on a hospital stretcher. He puts people off so he prefers behind-the-scenes snoop work like “sits” and stake-outs. His memory “on point,” photographic even, but the “glass” in his cranium causes him to get all touchy, twitchy and twisted. This private eye is Lionel Essrog, (known as Brooklyn), an orphan detective with Tourette syndrome, or “the rumble life,” as he calls it. Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” is a low-rent “Chinatown,” wonderfully evocative of a long-gone era when fedora-wearing gumshoes got caught up in other people’s passions.
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