Sherlock Holmes
July 9, 2010
Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 128 min Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Guy Richie is best known for directing modern-day British gangster movies. Here he does a revisionist Sherlock Holmes movie with a lot of action.
Robert Downey, Jr. plays Holmes as a quirky-but-cool eccentric. He doesn’t do a lot of detecting, but he’s ready to box, shoot guns, and generally get into dangerous situations.
Jude Law is Watson, and the two have a funny, bickering, cop-buddy-movie bromance going on.
Lest they’re a little too much into each other, we’ve got Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, in the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes, to be the spunky heroine.
This all works pretty well. The mystery seems pretty secondary, but that was sometimes true in the original stories. And there’s a lot of nice touches that show the writers have actually read the stories. And there’s a nice CGI recreation of Victorian London, complete with an under-construction Tower Bridge. As a general rule in movies, if you see a building is under construction, the climax of the movie will usually be there, with heroes and villains dangling off the building in question.
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