“First We Take Brooklyn” (*1/2 out of four) was a wearily derivative underworld melodrama about an ex-con (Danny Abeckaser) released from a life sentence in Israel and returns home to the mean streets of NYC to live with his family and winds up in the midst of an escalating turf war involving the Russian mafia. Umpteenth story about guns and the mob offers nothing fresh and not much exciting aside from good locations in the city. Harvey Keitel turns up in a few scenes as an aging mob boss but he can play this role in his sleep by now and he does. Hard to believe his “Mean Streets” is still being ripped off nearly 45 years later!