Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

PG-13

12/16/20112h 9m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The game is afoot. ~

Overview:

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Director:

Guy Ritchie

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$125,000,000.00

Revenue:

$334,615,000.00

Key words:

london, england
paris, france
detective inspector
steampunk
buddy
criminal mastermind
19th century
sherlock holmes

Cast

Robert Downey Jr.

~ as ~

Sherlock Holmes

Jude Law

~ as ~

Dr. John Watson

Noomi Rapace

~ as ~

Madam Simza Heron

Jared Harris

~ as ~

Professor James Moriarty

Rachel McAdams

~ as ~

Irene Adler

Eddie Marsan

~ as ~

Inspector Lestrade

Kelly Reilly

~ as ~

Mary Morstan

Stephen Fry

~ as ~

Mycroft Holmes

Paul Anderson

~ as ~

Colonel Sebastian Moran

Geraldine James

~ as ~

Mrs. Hudson

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Reviews (2)

PG
Per Gunnar Jonsson
Written 7 year(s) ago
5
As a general adventure and action movie I would consider this as a decent, even good, movie. As a Sherlock Holmes movie…not so much. Unfortunately, watching this movie confirms my suspicions. This is a Hollywood version of Sherlock Holmes. No style, no finesse. A Sherlock Holmes movie should not be a Hollywood action rollercoaster. It should be intelligent, stylish, witty perhaps involving detective work and, above all, British. It didn’t help that they enrolled Stephen Frey. This film is just not right.

I really cannot stand the hostility between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. There no justification for it in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The slow motion scenes are nothing but annoying. The lame jokes are out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie.

It gets a 5 out of 10 just because it’s actually a decent movie…if you can forget that they claim it to be a Sherlock Holmes one.
JPV852
Written 5 year(s) ago
8
Probably the third time seeing this (once in theaters, another when it came out on Blu-ray) and still highly enjoyable, even think this is a tad better than the first if only because of Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty as a great adversary to Holmes. 3.75/5