Sherlock Holmes Review And Sherlock Holmes Trailer
Dr. Watson and the chaps from New Scotland Yard load up their handguns on the way to a bust.
Our champion, who’s arrived there well before them cheers to his climbing/clambering skills, boots the door down, “Dirty Harry” style.
Robert Downey Jr. Isn’t your great-grandfather’s Sherlock Holmes.
Director Guy Ritchie has turned the intellectual pipe-smoker into a Victorian England James Bond, torn and prepared for action. He still possesses those intensive powers of observation, still has the fiddle, still has his little drug habit.
And he still says, “The game’s afoot.”
But Ritchie jerks Holmes out of drawing rooms and thrusts him through the murky streets of 1880s Greater London in chase of a baddie he believed he had captured and seen hanged. And Holmes matches mentalities with an American con man called Irene (Rachel McAdams) who once outfoxed him and stole his heart.
Downey Jr. has fun with this newest raid comic-book action, and Holmes’ give-and-take with Watson (Jude Law) is humorous and witty, an exchange of peers, not the way that kinship is traditionally acted. This Watson is as two-fisted as Holmes, an Army veterinary surgeon about to wed and leave their untidy 221B Baker Street digs behind.
Their quarry: an English lord with a gift for the black arts (Mark Strong) who captivates minds, forfeits girls and seemingly rises from the grave after the coppers see him to the gallows.
Strong has great peril and enigma about him, and McAdams makes a playful foil for our hero. But it’s Downey’s eyes, always litigating info, and his offbeat way with a line that sell this film: “Data, data, data. I cannot make breakthroughs without data.”
Ritchie delivers PG-13 action (a first for him) and lots of atmosphere in between brawls and shootouts. But the script-by-committee unravels in a “Wild Wild West”/”League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” load of techno-hooey by the finale.
As much fun as it is to view Downey as Holmes plan and recite his every punch in a fight and derive his way to answers, they may have to take another crack at this franchise to actually get it right. This one feels reasonably elementary.
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Brilliant take on a classic! Especially like that he incorporated a pub called The Punch Bowl – must love Guy Ritchie for it!
Yeah, the part where the camera is sideways after the kick, it’s not in the movie. But if you watch enough trailers, you’ll start to see that tons of stuff in trailers isn’t in the movie, or it’s a different take.