Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Jan. 22nd, 2012 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsLast night, Lisakit and I went out to see the new Sherlock Holmes film. It is directed by Guy Ritchie, so it has the same look and feel of the first film, and Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law reprise their roles as Holmes and Watson in a wild bromance as they hunt down the wily Moriarty, an industrialist who uses assassination and blackmail to slowly build a massive empire of coal and steel. The whys of this are a plot point I shall not reveal.
Like the first one, there's a lot of ramping, and Holmes' preternatural ability to script out an encounter before it happens is blocked only by Moriarty's equal capacity with it, so there are some intriguing intellectual cat-and-mouse games.
There's a massive amount of real, human stuntwork in the film. The stunt crew was almost as big as the digital effects artists list, which tells you something about the amount of work that went into making everything look real.
The soundtrack pummels you into submission. It's getting worse in the theaters as they get more and more desperate to "entertain" you.
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows is, in the end, a big banging booming, sometimes funny take on the Holmes story, with gorgeous photography ocassionally ruined by an overeager director.
Like the first one, there's a lot of ramping, and Holmes' preternatural ability to script out an encounter before it happens is blocked only by Moriarty's equal capacity with it, so there are some intriguing intellectual cat-and-mouse games.
There's a massive amount of real, human stuntwork in the film. The stunt crew was almost as big as the digital effects artists list, which tells you something about the amount of work that went into making everything look real.
The soundtrack pummels you into submission. It's getting worse in the theaters as they get more and more desperate to "entertain" you.
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows is, in the end, a big banging booming, sometimes funny take on the Holmes story, with gorgeous photography ocassionally ruined by an overeager director.
