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Paragraph Movie Reviews: Sherlock Holmes.Check out my awesome Bootleg Moomin Action Figure!.Pimping My Stuff: MSH: What The-?! Siege promo.Paragraph (Plus) Movie Reviews: Inglorious Basterds.Art Attack: April 2010's coolest covers.Paragraph Movie Reviews Second Opinion: Sherlock H.Comic Shop Stop: What I Bought This Week.If you like either actor and found the previews for this movie intriguing based on their involvement alone, you'll probably enjoy it as a smarter than average action movie distraction, but don't go in looking for either a top notch mystery film or even a return to form for a director who was supposed to be the next great crime filmmaker.
Watson, and the rest of the cast keeps pace admirably as the film goes along. and Jude Law are terrific as the titular detective and his man Friday Dr. Though, that's not to say the film wasn't very fun. Here, we get a bunch of odd details with no context, exposition or even comment that at the end Holmes wraps up into a neat little bundle in a very "as you know, Bob" scene. There were no clues given along the way, and while the readers of the books (which I was, obsessively, in grade school) never have the wit to figure out what's going on before Holmes does, at least they're given the pieces he has to decipher the mystery at hand. That should pretty much tell you all you need to know about whether the film even tried to break out of the expected plot mechanics of today's action movies, and while I could go on about the non-magic fake outs that cheat the audience and the lead character and the sometimes grinding fight sequences, the most I'll say about what I disliked here was that this was not a Sherlock Holmes mystery. In Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" the villainous Lord Blackwell dips into both sides of the coin with a scheme for overthrowing the government that involves both the invention of radio detonators and a whole lot of bland lip service to ruling the minds of the citizenry with fear. In that really shitty second Zorro movie with Antonio Banderas, the final action sequence revolved around the creation of nitroglycerin. For example, in the highly flawed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie the grand scheme of the bad guy was to create the arms race between nations. The going rate in period action movies these days is for the threat that the villain dangles over the head of our hero and the general public has some kind of mirror to modern day events/inventions/maladies. Throughout this version of Sherlock Holmes, the two partners banter constantly, reminding me of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.When Ben does these, he usually notes that interested parties can check out the film in question's Wikipedia page to read spoilers, so how could I not provide such a link? Beyond that, maybe I'll be spoiling things below? I can never tell if what I say ruins a movie for someone. Illustrations and scrap-book style entries make this visually appealing. In fact, a precious gem was stolen and Sherlock is sure he knows where the thieves hid it. "Then get what's in your hand out of my face," Watson retorts. When their class is on a school field trip, a fake crime happens at the museum only Sherlock discovers it wasn’t a fake crime.
"Get that out of my face," Watson tells him.
Sitting in their rooms at 221 B Baker Street, Holmes is toying with an electric cattle prod. And for that matter, Jude Law doesn't play Watson like the docile friend and physician he is in the stories. Though Sherlock, the detective, does retain his amazing deductive powers, he is definitely not the refined gentleman your grandparents knew. It's a highly satisfying bit of filmmaking. Then we see him carry out those actions at normal speed. delivers an inspired performance that is nearly impossible to resist.ĭuring one of my favorite scenes in "Sherlock Holmes," Downey plays the detective as a bare knuckles boxer who explains in voice over and slow motion just how he'll defeat his opponent. But (and this is a huge "but") the talented Robert Downy Jr.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the original character, must be turning over in his grave. By Terry Hunter The new Sherlock Holmes movie transforms the elegant detective into an action hero.
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