Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is released on Blu-ray and DVD in Australia by Roadshow Entertainment.Ĭatch ya later, George Check out my bookish blog, Literary Clutter, hosted by Boomerang Books.Īnd follow me on Twitter to get updates on both blogs. If you liked the first film, you’ll love this one. I would have much preferred a detailed ‘making of’ documentary. It’s gimmicky and jumpy, and Downey comes across as rather smarmy and annoying in his hosting role. As you watch the film in this mode, Downey pops up every now and then to give you some added info and show you how certain things were done. Unfortunately, much of the behind-the-scene stuff is presented in an extremely annoying way - Maximum Movie Mode. There are some good behind-the-scenes extras on the disc. The action sequences and spectacular effects are brilliant in high-def. It was an OTT action flick squeezed into a vaguely Holmesian shape. Overall I was left with the impression that this film, like its predecessor, wasn’t really a Sherlock Holmes film. In this somewhat over-the-top film, he provides grounding and true, calculating menace with his measured and restrained performance. It is, however, Jared Harris who steals the show as Moriarty. Stephen Fry is amusing as Mycroft Holmes and Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is more than just an action heroine as Madam Simza Heron. (Watson is sometimes dumbed-down in adaptations, such as in Sherlock Holmes in New York.) Law and Downey have a believable onscreen chemistry, working off each other with seamless ease, and it is this that makes the film particularly watchable. It’s good to see an intelligent Watson who is just as necessary to the plot as Holmes. puts in a convincing performance, but his interpretation of Holmes really doesn’t fit my view of the character. Even Holmes’s deductive process seems to have its emphasis on spectacle rather than intellect.Īlthough Holmes is clever, he is very much portrayed as an action hero, and there is the tendency to over do the humour at times. But there is a sense that the filmmakers have concentrated a little too much on the effects and grandeur, rather than the deduction and the mystery. The film is well-paced and exciting and rather spectacular at times. There is much running about, lots of fight sequences, some spectacular action and some great locations as our heroes make their way across Europe, finally ending up at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Irene Adler, who featured heavily in the first film, only has a brief appearance at the start of this one, and is quickly replaced with a new character - a gypsy woman named Madam Simza Heron. This time around Holmes and Watson come face to face with Professor Moriarty, a criminal mastermind with plans of world domination. And like its predecessor, it’s actually more of an action/adventure flick than a Sherlock Holmes film. This is the second film in director Guy Richie’s blockbuster series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
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