“Motherless Brooklyn” (** out of four) was a disappointing crime melodrama set in 1950’s NYC in which a private detective with Tourette’s Syndrome (Edward Norton) attempts to solve and uncover the murder of his mentor (Bruce Willis) but this leads him to the seamier and more violent side of the criminal underworld. Director and star Norton knows where and how to place his camera and tells his story in style but it’s a world we’ve been to many times before, in “L.A. Confidential” and “Gangster Squad” among many others. Norton is solid in the lead as always but he played a better version of a similar role in “The Score” and much of the supporting cast (including Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, and Ethan Suplee) is wasted and given nothing to do