Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Mark Strong
Direction: Guy Ritchie
If you drooled over Robert Downey Jr. after watching Iron Man, get ready for some massive fan worship!
With Sherlock Holmes Downey gives his audience a treat!
Directed by Guy Ritchie, Sherlock Holmes is a Screen adaptation of the Ever-so-Popular Novel By Sir Conan Doyle.The whole movie is shot in a massive larger than life set! And Downey is just so marvelous!
Robert Downey Jr stars as the beloved private eye who's been reinvented as something of an action hero who leaps out of buildings, dodges explosions, and gets down and dirty in a violent bare-knuckle brawl. Along with his relatively reserved sidekick, the dependable Dr John Watson (played by Jude Law), he still solves crimes for a living, but the pair spends most of their time bickering{very enjoyable indeed!}.
The film's plot involves the villainous Lord Blackwood (played by Mark Strong), who after being arrested and executed for satanic practices in the film's opening scenes, somehow engineers his return from the dead and hatches a nefarious plot to rule the British Empire.
There's a kinetic energy to the action scenes that's vintage Guy Ritchie, and occasionally he employs his trademark super-slo-mo to the hand-to-hand combat scenes that instantly remind you of the best bits in both Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
But on deeper thinking the plot may seems ridiculous but after the movie you so stunned that you couldn't care less about the logical loop holes !
Too much is happening all at once, and while that does throw you off occasionally, Sherlock Holmes is an enjoyable enough watch for the sheer charm of its two leads. Jude Law delivers a low-key yet elegant performance as Watson, giving his co-star all the room to shine. As the boozing, brawling Holmes, Robert Downey Jr is excellent. With the twitch of an eye or the subtle shift of a smile or a frown, he conveys a variety of feelings, and literally grabs the film from the word go.
Watch it if you didn"t, You wont be disappointed!
Rating : 4.5/5
a 5/5 from me
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