Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Stephen Fry
Synopsis:
Watson endeavours to get married, but Holmes tricks him into aiding him on one last case, an adventure to stop the fiendish Moriarty from speculating on and fomenting war between the French and the Germans.
Review:
Ritchie's action hero detective makes a reappearance in this generally superior sequel, getting on with business early by despatching a much-loved character and not letting up thenceforward. The star's annoyingly half-swallowed English delivery is impossible to decipher at times, but the cast is uniformly entertaining company (except for the gratuitous addition of a naked Stephen Fry) and the story affords a chilling foretaste of Europe's descent towards arms race madness, though the film's conception of north European geography between Paris and Germany apparently includes terrain looking every inch like North Wales. Ritchie's relentlessly comic strip approach to Holmesian narrative (show rather than tell) is cinematic enough, while being meretricious at the same time, and Hans Zimmer's music sustains the atmosphere well.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Stephen Fry
Synopsis:
Watson endeavours to get married, but Holmes tricks him into aiding him on one last case, an adventure to stop the fiendish Moriarty from speculating on and fomenting war between the French and the Germans.
Review:
Ritchie's action hero detective makes a reappearance in this generally superior sequel, getting on with business early by despatching a much-loved character and not letting up thenceforward. The star's annoyingly half-swallowed English delivery is impossible to decipher at times, but the cast is uniformly entertaining company (except for the gratuitous addition of a naked Stephen Fry) and the story affords a chilling foretaste of Europe's descent towards arms race madness, though the film's conception of north European geography between Paris and Germany apparently includes terrain looking every inch like North Wales. Ritchie's relentlessly comic strip approach to Holmesian narrative (show rather than tell) is cinematic enough, while being meretricious at the same time, and Hans Zimmer's music sustains the atmosphere well.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris, Kelly Reilly, Stephen Fry
Synopsis:
Watson endeavours to get married, but Holmes tricks him into aiding him on one last case, an adventure to stop the fiendish Moriarty from speculating on and fomenting war between the French and the Germans.
Review:
Ritchie's action hero detective makes a reappearance in this generally superior sequel, getting on with business early by despatching a much-loved character and not letting up thenceforward. The star's annoyingly half-swallowed English delivery is impossible to decipher at times, but the cast is uniformly entertaining company (except for the gratuitous addition of a naked Stephen Fry) and the story affords a chilling foretaste of Europe's descent towards arms race madness, though the film's conception of north European geography between Paris and Germany apparently includes terrain looking every inch like North Wales. Ritchie's relentlessly comic strip approach to Holmesian narrative (show rather than tell) is cinematic enough, while being meretricious at the same time, and Hans Zimmer's music sustains the atmosphere well.