Its obvious that Downey Jr and Law enjoyed making this film. Downey's performance is elegantly wrought he's as quick-witted as his legendary character, and blithely funny in the lovers' spatsall right, the mystery-lovers' spatsthat Holmes keeps having with Jude Law's witty Dr. Brilliant film with good directing and an excellent, complicated storyline.
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With any luck, the plot to launch a new franchise will fail and he’ll be waiting forever. Read full review 70 Joe Morgenstern The movie as a whole is clever, and conspicuously overwrought. It all has something to do with the plot of mad Lord Blackwood ( Mark Strong) to take over the world, but the real villain, Moriarty, is waiting in the wings. I appreciate that Holmes had a rough-and-tough side in Doyles fiction, but while some of the action scenes. Watson and Rachel McAdams is wasted as a master criminal who gets the best of Holmes. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened Review Screens 14 Images Occasionally, hallucinations and other encounters intended to disturb will bleed into the real world too, but these are arguably even. The film did fetishize violence more than I enjoyed. Downey is a combustible, one-of-a-kind actor who deserves better than this crunch-and-thud bid for a new movie brand. When not slumming in the streets, he’s duking it out in the squalid East End as a bare-chested combatant in scenes resembling outtakes from “Fight Club.” What was the thinking behind all this? Was producer Joel Silver, director Guy Ritchie, and Ritchie’s team of screenwriters worried that young male audiences wouldn’t warm to a hero who valued brains over brawn? If so, they overcorrected, to put it mildly. Sherlock Holmes Chapter One presents an interesting set of mysteries to solve, but its open-world setting doesn’t really elevate its familiar investigation gameplay to a substantial enough. I had high hopes going in to Sherlock Holmes, and I'm happy to report that director Guy Ritchie, composer Hans Zimmer, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law came together to exceed my expectations. This is certainly the grubbiest Holmes in movie history. With first Avatar and now Sherlock Holmes, 2009 is finishing on a very high note for movies and a Christmas present to audiences. plays the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detective as a kind of kung fu Ratso Rizzo.
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