Montana Smith
Active member
I don't know how to really class these two Guy Ritchie Sherlock films.
They both look good. Robert and Jude have a great rapport.
Yet they're far from the classic depiction. The subtlety of the detective stories are lost amid high octane action and Guy's highly stylized film-making. They feel self-consciously marketed at an audience who wouldn't normally flock to see a Sherlock Holmes tale as told in the television series.
By the time I was partway through A Game of Shadows I couldn't help thinking that this was the Indiana Jones version of Sherlock.
The best bits of both films, and especially of the second, were the comedy sequences.
The most excruciating moment was the final reveal of Sherlock at the end of Shadows!
They both look good. Robert and Jude have a great rapport.
Yet they're far from the classic depiction. The subtlety of the detective stories are lost amid high octane action and Guy's highly stylized film-making. They feel self-consciously marketed at an audience who wouldn't normally flock to see a Sherlock Holmes tale as told in the television series.
By the time I was partway through A Game of Shadows I couldn't help thinking that this was the Indiana Jones version of Sherlock.
The best bits of both films, and especially of the second, were the comedy sequences.
The most excruciating moment was the final reveal of Sherlock at the end of Shadows!