Sunday, December 27, 2009

SHERLOCK HOLMES




Action/Adventure

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Robert Downey Jr.: Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law: his faithful sidekick Dr. John Watson, surgeon and war veteran
Mark Strong: Lord Blackwood, practitioner of human sacrifice
Kelly Reilly: Watson’s girlfriend Mary Morstan
and others no doubt

REVIEW
Instead of being the cerebral detective, Sherlock Holmes has been transformed into some sort of action hero like Bruce Lee, an expert in the martial arts quite adept at the brutal, violent pummeling of an opponent. Holmes also comes across as an arrogant slob lacking social graces like any lowly thug.

Purists will feel cheated by this character assassination. Some of them, like me, will walk out.

CLASSIFICATION
for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material.

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