Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

“The game is afoot.”

7.1

2011

2h 9m

AdventureActionCrimeMystery

Director: Guy Ritchie

Overview

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Trailer

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Cast

Sherlock Holmes

Robert Downey Jr.

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. John Watson

Jude Law

Dr. John Watson

Madam Simza Heron

Noomi Rapace

Madam Simza Heron

Professor James Moriarty

Jared Harris

Professor James Moriarty

Irene Adler

Rachel McAdams

Irene Adler

Inspector Lestrade

Eddie Marsan

Inspector Lestrade

Mary Morstan

Kelly Reilly

Mary Morstan

Mycroft Holmes

Stephen Fry

Mycroft Holmes

Colonel Sebastian Moran

Paul Anderson

Colonel Sebastian Moran

Mrs. Hudson

Geraldine James

Mrs. Hudson

Constable Clark

William Houston

Constable Clark

Doctor Hoffmanstahl

Wolf Kahler

Doctor Hoffmanstahl

Reviews

Per Gunnar Jonsson

As a general adventure and action movie I would consider this as a decent, even good, movie. As a Sherlock Holmes movie…not so much. Unfortunately, watching this movie confirms my suspicions. This is a Hollywood version of Sherlock Holmes. No style, no finesse. A Sherlock Holmes movie should not be a Hollywood action rollercoaster. It should be intelligent, stylish, witty perhaps involving detective work and, above all, British. It didn’t help that they enrolled Stephen Frey. This film is just not right. I really cannot stand the hostility between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. There no justification for it in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The slow motion scenes are nothing but annoying. The lame jokes are out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie. It gets a 5 out of 10 just because it’s actually a decent movie…if you can forget that they claim it to be a Sherlock Holmes one.

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JPV852

Probably the third time seeing this (once in theaters, another when it came out on Blu-ray) and still highly enjoyable, even think this is a tad better than the first if only because of Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty as a great adversary to Holmes. **3.75/5**

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