Thursday 24 January 2013

Sherlock Holmes
(2009)

RATING:40%
FORMAT:DVD



A faithful compendium of the essential elements of the Sherlock Holmes’ stories, this one adds Americanisms and a modern idiom for the dialog and a Butch & Sundance relationship between Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Robert DOWNEY, Jr offers an unconvincing but fun English accent that adds to the general sense of this movie being less than the sum of its clever, amusing and entertaining parts.

The problem here is that the film lacks any themes worthy of Conan Doyle. The plotting is suitably intricate, but Holmes’ anti-social gynophobia and cocaine-addicted fear of boredom that made the original stories so engaging are missing. Guy Ritchie has finally made a film that has nothing of himself in it except his visual style. And outside of his usual lower-class London milieu, Ritchie really has very little to say.


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