Sherlock Holmes

**Calneon** · 2nd January 2010, 06:58 PM

Ok we had an Avatar thread, so why not a Sherlock Holmes one. I went to see this with Chalex today, thought it was very entertaining but a bit un-original.

Downey Jr and Jude Law are very good, and the special effects are fantastic, though you wouldn't notice very many unless you looked hard. The story was pretty average, a generic series of kills in a pattern leading to a race to stop the final murder. I thought how they showed fights was quite good, with him explaining beforehand and then having it play out in real time, though you watched the same thing two times.

I do like however the way they explained everything at the end or after it had happened, I guess it kind of took out the mystery behind a lot of it but that's what a detective's job is so it fitted in with the theme. Some of the murders were kind of un-imaginative, with the explainations being that they used some rare/unknown chemical to poison/ignite victim.

All in all very good though, however it doesn't challenge Avatar in the slightest. A recommended watch.

**Chalex4** · 2nd January 2010, 07:15 PM

Yeah I agree, it was good but not amazing. I do like though that it wasn't just your usual murder mystery, but of course that did mean that they had to use some crazy chemicals to explain things. Remember though that they've just reopened a franchise, so a lot of character development/explanation had to take place.

The next one (which there will be), should be able just to build on what we already know and therefore have a little greater depth.

I'd rate the film 7.6/10.