Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - See It


I dig Guy Ritchie films. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are two of my favorite all out slug (fist) and, well, slug (gun)-fests ever. This movie, the second in what promises to be at least a trilogy of Holmes movies is more mainstream, but doesn't leave any action on the cutting room floor. Basic premise is just what you'd think; Holmes is fast talking and uses more one liners than my freshman Psych professor trying to pick up the girl in the first row. (We all had one of those profs; and if you are one of those profs, this movie gives you some fresh material). It's fast moving and Professor Moriarty (played really creepily by Jared Harris) is always one step ahead.....until he's not. Go in knowing you are going to get narration rewinds, witty banter at Chinese ping pong olympian speeds, which always sounds cool in an English accent, loose science lessons and sequences that are shot in very cool slooooowww mooooottiion. It's a film I'll rent OnDemand because my retention is not that great and I'll have a pad and paper to write down the one liners to sell to community college Psych professors.

Class this as a 'Fun Movie'
Mild PG13 - due to the fighting and the Evil Professor 'offing' a few folk throughout.

1 comment:

  1. I saw it too. Excellent review...you covered it all!! A. Terri

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