Once the riddle is solved or the action concluded, flashbacks instruct the viewer as to what all the surveillance added up to. Slow motion abounds, utilized to make the audience feel stupid since no one is smart enough to keep up with Holmes’ mind, he’s merely shown interpreting objects and observing surroundings, collecting every minute detail with a photographic memory. Nearly everything that takes place in this second outing is as impossibly foolish as in the first. How thrilling for the title to be worked into the dialogue (or so Peter Griffin of “Family Guy” sarcastically insists). “It’s a game… a shadowy game,” muses Holmes. At the heart of the rebel group, which includes a captivatingly exotic gypsy woman (Noomi Rapace, the only refreshing, unique addition, who gets not nearly enough screen time) and extremist leader Claude Ravache (Thierry Neuvic), is a renowned professor named James Moriarty (Jared Harris), who is masterminding World War I. Instead, the master sleuth is absorbed with getting to the bottom of an anarchist bombing in Strasbourg. Watson (Jude Law) with a stag party and preparation for Watson’s wedding. In 1891 London, famous detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) is supposed to be helping his best friend Dr. Unfortunately, even if it weren’t called “Sherlock Holmes” and wasn’t based on any preexisting concept, it would still be unforgivably silly. In that regard, “A Game of Shadows” is just slightly more entertaining than its predecessor.
The sole reconciling factor is that since this is a sequel, audiences already know what to expect. And he’s still absolutely nothing like the Sherlock Holmes authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – or any other filmic adaptation (save for his smoking of a pipe). He’s still good with the ladies, quick with his tongue, and proficient with the impossible. He opening scene tells all – Sherlock Holmes is still a master of disguise, highly skilled as a martial artist, capable of conjuring amazingly accurate premonitions of future events, and can slow down time through momentary meditation.
Release Date: December 16th, 2011 MPAA Rating: PG-13ĭirector: Guy Ritchie Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan T Genre: Adventure and Mystery Running Time: 2 hrs.
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