Having a more or less clever script, ugly enough supporting actors to be in a 50's movie, excellent costumes and vintage cars is not enough to create an epic film. And what does it take to create an epic film? Good cinematography and excellent photography. That is, lighting, texture, atmosphere. Neither with a hundred smoke machines nor with yellow filters you get that, you get that with a good technician-creator behind the cameras and Norton didn't know that. Or did he forget? Without that actors are well dressed and better combed toys moving on an empty stage. You leave them without resources. They are left naked of their character. They are left with nothing. And there is no sharp story, no freaky character with Tourette's syndrome to save him.
Review of Motherless Brooklyn
