“Manhattan Night” (** out of four) was a tepid NYC noir drama about an opportunistic journalist (Adrian Brody) drawn into a criminal and sexual underworld of the city when he meets a seductive stranger (Yvonne Strahovski) who asks him to investigate the mysterious murder of her filmmaker husband (Campbell Scott). Brody is strong as always but story gets lurid and sleazy and never shifts into high gear. Strahovski is good as the femme Fatale but Scott is miscast and unconvincing as a sleaze. You can only imagine what Hitchcock or Robert Altman could have done with juicy material like this.