Title: Sherlock Holmes
Director: Guy Ritchie
Running time: 2 hours 11 minutes
Genre: Mystery
Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) managed to save a woman from being sacrificed in a dark magic ritual performed by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). Lord Blackwood was subsequently hanged to death. However, Lord Blackwood seemed to have risen from the grave and possess magical powers beyond imagination and three more people were killed. Holmes and Watson must solve the mysteries behind these murders before Lord Blackwood come looking for them!
This is a rather different adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. While the Sherlock in this movie retain the crime solving abilities as in novels, this film adaptation of Sherlock is more eccentric... crazy even... and I think they managed to pull if off nicely. I had quite an amusing time watching this movie as it breaks my expectation of a mundane theory based crime solving activity. Instead, it is laden with action sequences that will drive you to the edge of your seats (okay, that's exaggerating a little :P)
Anyhow, the theory based fighting scenes which were then transformed into split second action is most innovative and it occurs twice only in the whole movie, which I think is the correct move... while entertaining, if this type of scenes were shown more would be boring.
The jokes were also something noteworthy to mention. Although I could see the joke coming miles away, both actors, (Robert and Jude) managed to present it in a convincing manner. None of the jokes seemed forced. I do, though have some problems understanding some of their conversations... some details were lost in the Malay language translation of the subtitles and the actors were talking too fast as certain points that I had trouble catching up.
I really think that this movie is worth one's money and it is a movie that is good enough for one to spend year end holidays on.
Observation: Watson's recoveries after the explosion were really unbelievable :P
Bottomline: Good movie to end the year 2009
Bamboo Ranking: 4.0 / 5.0
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