Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared
Harris, Stephen Fry
Rating: 8 out of 10, this sequel to Sherlock Holmes
was a little better than the original, something that isn’t easy. It takes the same characters into the epic
confrontation with Professor Moriarty, hinted at in the first movie. Strangely for a Ritchie movie, there were
some real problems with pacing, something he usually excels at. The center plot line and the strength again
of this movie is the relationship between Homes and Watson. Law and Downey
make a great team and play off each other superbly. They obviously felt the need to get a strong
female presence, something they did extremely well in the first movie with
Rachel McAdam, gone too soon in this one, and the wife of Watson.
This time they went with Rapace, who once again is awesome and steals
every scene she’s in but she doesn’t really have a big enough role for the
amount of screen time she gets. It’s
almost as if the part was intended to be small but she was so good that they
left in some scenes that were better off on the cutting room floor in the interest
of pacing. I liked the move although Downey seems to have some
sort of masochist need to get the living daylights beaten out of him
repeatedly. I though Holmes was smarter
than that. I really enjoyed the scenes
of him and Harris, an able Moriarty, squaring off.
MVP: Law as the redoubtable Dr Watson enduring the
worst stag party ever
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