This Weekend At The Movies
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s paragon of logical reasoning, may be one of literature’s most intellectual detectives, but in Hollywood he’s just another action hero.
At least, this is the case in Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” franchise, in which Robert Downey Jr. portrays the legendary sleuth and costume swapper and Jude Law is Dr. John Watson.
Ritchie’s 2009 film was an amusing action thriller that was mostly fueled by the prodigious talents of Downey Jr.
Its sequel, “A Game of Shadows,” amps everything up a notch: excessive plotting, action sequences, slow motion shootouts, martial arts-styled fisticuffs and one-liners. It’s a case in which less could have been more.
The picture involves a fiendish plot that could – and I paraphrase – bring down the whole of western civilization. This diabolical scheme has been devised by Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), a criminal mastermind who acts as the primary villain in Doyle’s series of novels.
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