Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 2011

The game is afoot.

7.136 / 10   10041 vote(s)
PG-13
Adventure Action Crime Mystery

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.

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Release Date 2011-11-22
Runtime 2h 9m
Directors Guy Ritchie, Philippe Rousselot, Niall Moroney, Adam Dale, David Higgs, Gary Jopling, Chad Stahelski
Producers Joel Silver, Susan Downey, Dan Lin, Lionel Wigram, Bruce Berman, Steve Clark-Hall, Ethan Erwin, Peter Eskelsen, Lauren Meek, Laya Armian, Lucy Ainsworth-Taylor, Sara Trezzi, Doug Oddy
Writers Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney, Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

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

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