“The Bricks” (** out of four) was a fairly routine urban-pulp thriller about a detective (Dakarai Akil) who goes undercover in the bowels of Houston to uncover a nest of trafficking and drug distribution but finds that he may be in over his head when he is faced with temptations, divided loyalties, and diversions of his own as all this may lead back to a nefarious kingpin (Khalil Kain) who is still in prison and a woman (Dee Hill- who is a dead-ringer for Ciara) he knows on the streets. Built brick-for-brick (no pun intended) on the cliches of countless other urban thrillers although it’s fast-paced enough to make it watchable. Genre fans will recognize Khain as one of the co-stars of “Juice” but this film pales in comparison to that film’s “juice” and electricity.