Director Guy Ritchie set out to give Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character the Batman Begins makeover with Robert Downey Jr. channeling Jack Sparrow as the title character.
What could have been a silly mess turns out to be thoroughly entertaining. Right off the bat it's made apparent this isn't the Jeremy Bratt pip-pip Holmes, by inserting choreographed fights scenes and slo-mo CGI. Unfortunately, Mark Strong and Rachel McAdams are painfully boring compared to the bromantic chemistry between Downey and Jude Law's Dr. Watson.
Bad points aside, it can't be ignored that this is just good fun.
3½ ravens of death out of 5
1 comment:
If not for RDJ, I would have found this incredibly boring. Still did at some points. Fell asleep the first time I saw it.
2 Earslaps look painful out of 5
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