Ritchie relishes ye olde London town settings, concocting a cool brew of cobblestone chic and sartorial crime-fighting as he eventually gets us to a Tower Bridge finale built upon establishing future instalments. On the way, the childish banter with Watson is fine – Law elevated by the challenge of Downey Jr – but discovering Holmes’s prime motivators are jealousy, vanity and lost love doesn’t inspire you to really warm to the petulant guy. Without this weight to proceedings, the trail of Blackwood unspools gradually, almost standing still on occasion.
But scarce detail about Holmes’s past, especially his shared history with Watson, creates a critical hole in our understanding and appreciation of just how brilliant/interesting/revered the deductive duo apparently is.
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But it’s not exactly an Indiana Jones romp, superhero blast-off or intense forensic thriller, either.ĭowney Jr is the right rumpled choice for the aloof and snide Holmes, a fighting-fit brainiac who could become every nerd’s hero. Actor Ramesh Aravind and director Akash Srivatsa bring back their detective franchise in a second avatar - Shivaji Surathkal 2 - The mysterious case of Maayavi.The movie slated to release on April.
Which is odd, considering Blackwood’s scheme is complicated to the point of incomprehension, littered with red herrings, plot devices and Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams, also not getting enough screen time), the con woman who broke Holmes’s heart.Įvidently, Sherlock Holmes is not criminally boring or pointless. Though it sounds as if Sherlock has been handed lock, stock and two smoking barrels by Ritchie, the cantankerous Holmes and his long-suffering offsider Dr Watson (spiffing Jude Law) go about their business as if urgency, tension or high stakes are unnecessary. Elsewhere, Holmes dodges explosions, meat saws and a sinking ship while investigating a spooky situation in 1890s London involving Lord Blackwood (underused Mark Strong), Da Vinci Code-like spells and government control.
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