Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
With Wit, Reviewed By Kimmo Mustonenen
Okay, Hollywood, I give.
It is FUN to see great literary figure turned into 19th century James Bond.
There must always be explosions.
CGI must be in every movie ever made.
See, Hollywood?
You win.
For the rest of the film career of reviewing I shall just suck on my bong and sit through whatever I’m being paid to sit through.
And LIKE it.
No… LOVE it.
So, for the second time staged a witty director Guy Ritchie crime adventure with invented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective Sherlock Holmes, a classic figure of English literature (that is not in this movie. Same name. Definitely not same guy.).
As in the first film from the year 2009 the script the action transferred to the Victorian era, which also comes from Doyle’s character. The men of the friendship of Robert Downey, Jr. played Holmes and his assistants presented by Dr. John Watson Jude Law delighted with lively war of words.
This time, the detective met his equal intellectually nemesis, Professor James Moriarty (also a name that appears in the Doyle stories, not so much the character), who is about to incite a world war and to seize the most important industries of Europeunder the nail.
The freaking nail!!!
To put the criminal played by Jared Harris, in the shaft, Holmes and Watson travel to Paris, Germany and Switzerland, as if they were secret agents of later generations of film (Bond, Bourne, whoever the closeted Cruise plays in MI: Whatever).
They fight often in the literal sense before picturesque scenery, in a gentleman’s club, a train, in the Paris Opera House, a posh hotel and a Swiss mountain chateau, a munitions factory and on the backs of horses.
Son of a bitch!
Doyle’s master detective was originally in the struggle with Moriarty in Switzerland – fall down the Reichenbach Falls, in death, before he then reanimated again for more adventures.
It takes the action back here and puts on an impressive waterfall, a CGI castle in ludicrous steep hillside (maybe the same town as “Immortals” 2,000 years later). There sits a peace conference, which Moriarty wants to make the starting point of World War II.
Or I – I was pretty high.
While Watson and the belligerent gypsy Sim, played by Naomi Rapace (Dragon Tattoo chick – For The Win!), inside Europe are trying to save to provide themselves Holmes and Moriarty at the balcony of a game of chess on the board and as spirited debate about the case.
Damn straight.
Enough already.
There was a plot, but that is unimportant.
Robert Downey, Jr. has mister fun good times.
The women were hot.
You saw SH#1 and liked it? This is also for your liking.
I suggest using a bong – with and Indica blend because that will make you like an idiot drool.
And being an idiot with drool is the only way to see this.
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows” has made me see the light. The light of my lighter as I take another major hit.
Hollywood is awesome.
Light up and pass the cheetos.
Kimmo Mustonenen – (Kimmo On Kino) – Behind The Proscenium
P.S. Ryan Murphy, thank you for a taste of Lindsay Pearce in “Glee.” I know now that you are listening! Two more Lindsay episodes – then we can be friends!
Unlike the first one this one is suppose to be good. Though getting a bong in the theater may prove difficult.
Movie reviewers have different security clearances.
I use a Magic Flight Launch Box for tokin’ trees at the movies.
Forbidden Planet is fan-fucking-tastic while blazed on a hybrid, preferably sativa. The great machine scene is visionary.
Yes! Totally baked cinema will be bigger than 3D. I guarantee it.
Hopefully between Sherlock Holmes and Chipwrecked Hollywood should get back on track at the box office. I expect those two movies combined to do about $100 million. About $60 million for Sherlock Holmes and maybe around $40 million for Chipwrecked.
I just don’t remember Sherlock Holmes books as being action adventures. Wasn’t solving the crimes through ingenuity and intelligence the great things about those books?
Great review, Kimmo! I thought the first one was a lot of fun and I expect this one to be as well. Just the still photos of Robert Downey are hilarious. I hope it’s as funny as it looks. Though I’ve heard it’s really bloody.
I really enjoyed the first film. If nothing else it was a fun ride. I’m hoping for a nice 2 hour diversion with this as well.
In my mind there will never be a better Holmes than Jeremy Brett. that guy was amazing and hardly the action hero type.
Sign me up for Chipwrecked. This one looks shite.
Oh dear! I saw a screening last night. Wish I had read your review first and taken the required paraphernalia with me. As it was, I was very disappointed. I really liked the first one, found it clever and a really fun ride. I loved the sort of fast, clockwork precision of it and the attention to period detail. This one . . . not so much. This one has turned into just your mid-level action picture — do a lot of running around, shoot a lot of guns, and blow stuff up. It might as well be a Michael Bay picture. Very little wit, no charm, and a terrible waste of all the wonderful actors here, who could be so terrific in a better made picture — with the exception of Jared Harris, who makes a sensational Moriarty. Half the fun interaction between Holmes and Watson just gets lost in the surrounding chaos. Watching it, the word that kept coming to mind was ‘sloppy.’ And I thought the ending was a completely unearned cheat!
Sorry to be so negative, but I really was disappointed.
Box office has not been saved. It’s looking like $40-45 million for the weekend. The first one opened at $62 million. And Chipwrecked may not do $30. Are movies in theaters in trouble?
That’s the end of the that franchise.
Rob Downey + Jude Law…what a great combo!! this duo should be fantastic, I’m sure!