The Organization can be rough on super-city sleuths as well as movie-goers who've been through much the same melodramatics before.

There's a bit of shooting, a few identities are untangled, and the movie comes to an unmourned end.

Without Heat’svivid racial conflict, these movies try to drag in different forms of “social relevance” (including Tibb’s dull domestic problems), but in such a wishy-washy fashion that they don’t really say anything about those issues.

A dreary endeavor.