Sherlock Holmes

[Kitsune]

Summary: A fun enough movie, but a mediocre mystery when everything's pretty blindingly obvious.

[Comstar]

Saw it today when the rest of the family demanded we go see it. Should have gone to seen Avatar a 3rd time, it would have had more surprises.

The one point of a Sherlock Holmes movie is that is a Sherlock Holmes movie. Mystery, clues, a puzzle. Instead we get a lame plot involving the illuminati that comes out of nowhere and a mastermind that's got the stupidest idea to take over the world since Pinky and the Brain. And Brain had MUCH better idea's that made more sense. The plot wasn't as stupid as Transformers 2, but it's on the same level as the crappiness of Terminator 4. It reminded me a lot of Biggles the movie.

I hope there is no sequel, despite a lot of the plot and 2 of the characters only being in the movie to set up a sequel and having no reason otherwise of appearing.

[gryeyes]

Better or worse than Young Sherlock Holmes?

[Demetra]

If I remember right, Young Sherlock Holmes was intended for kids and it was pretty forgetable.  This was much better to me anyway and
clearly for an older audience. But I wonder if anyone else who saw it had trouble understanding some of the dialog?  The roomie and I both
missed part of it but I'm not sure if it was due to bad sound or idiomatic dialog we weren't familiar with.

[Comstar]

There was about 4 times in the movie that Holmes or someone else said something and I could not understand a word they said. This wasn't while someone loud or distracting was going on, just normal conversation that sounded like someone had pressed random keys when writing the script.

[Nerf]

We saw it xmas night, aside from the theater fucking up the projector and having to wait around for an hour past the showtime for the movie to start, it was pretty enjoyable (and we got free tickets to another show).  The highlight of the movie had to be the email I got from movietickets.com asking me to review it though, the very first review on the link they sent me was some guy saying it was the most satanic movie he had ever seen, and that he walked out less than an hour into it, which then led to a quick burst of outrage about studios making these evil, satanic movies and how they need to stop, or put some sort of "WARNING: Satan!" sticker on the poster.

Good times.

[NowhereMan]

I've not seen this yet but it sounds like the trailers were accurate in this being more a movie about someone stopping a dastardly villain from conquering the world rather than being about Sherlock Holmes. Maybe I'd be more inclined to see it if they called it the League of Extraordinary Sherlocks or something.

[AutomaticZen]

It was actually a pretty enjoyable movie and the character hewed far closer to the books than most Holmes media.  There was a rather large change in Adler (who was only in one story in the originals) to make her a larger part of the plot and a love interest for Holmes, but all in all, good stuff.

Comstar's just an angry man.

[Comstar]

What was Adler's purpose in the movie?

[Ratman_tf]

The trailers kept reminding me of something, but I  just now realized what.

Wild Wild West.

[Lakov_Sanite]

This is a good movie, infinitely better than wild wild west.  It had funny moments but never got over-the-top silly and while the mysteries were on the lighter side, I'm not sure how in depth people wanted them to be.  Make no mistake this is an action movie, i would go so far as to say a buddy cop movie but it's not like they shat all over the sherlock holmes books either. 

I'm certainly not going to gush about the movie, it had it's flaws for sure but I would probably say that this is how they could have done the league of extraordinary gentlemen and had it NOT suck.

[Brogarn]

Overall I thought it was decent. Not great, though. It was like a mixture of Guy Ritchie and Jerry Bruckheimer where they didn't blend, but remained in their own layers. The slow motion melee fight recounts felt more Ritchie while the entire scene on the bridge construction was completely Bruckheimer.

[01101010]

I don't care how many faces Downey Jr. plays, he will always be Julian too me. Not saying he wasn't good in any of his other films, but something about Julian cemented that role to that actor for me.

[UnSub]

Law and Downey Jr had good chemistry; film is burdened down by having to make love interests for the male leads.

What role does Adler play? Making Holmes appear less gay and to help set up a sequel.

It's okay, but while seeing it I thought that the writers probably had read through Alan Moore's From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at least once. Well shot and Ritchie made London look very stylish. Liked the music too since it fit. Plot was better than "Avatar" () but it really was for the lowest common denominator and over-explained.

[Samwise]

I thought it was lame that Holmes didn't wear his trademark deerstalker.  Yes, it would be hard for him to not look dorky in it, and dorky is not what they were going for.  Don't care.  Make it work.

[Ironwood]

Uh, I don't get it Samwise.  What's that one meant to be ?

[K9]

Echoing the sentiments that this was a fun but unspectacular movie. I thought it was pretty polished overall for the genre that it is in, and I'll probably grab it again on rental when it comes to DVD. Jude Law and RDJ definitely made it and did a good job of it.

[Samwise]

Uh, I don't get it Samwise.  What's that one meant to be ?

A stretch.  I have an idea for improving that day but I haven't found an adequate swan dive picture yet.  I did upgrade day 2 this year though.   

[Hoax]

Didn't really like it, not sure I can say why.  All the parts are good (fight scenes) to great (RDJ, Law, the vision of London) but the whole just never sucked me in never grabbed me and I left the theater feeling unsatisfied.

[Malakili]

Summary: A fun enough movie, but a mediocre mystery when everything's pretty blindingly obvious.

on the bit in the spoiler tag.  Yes, it was a very obvious mystery though.  Still, enjoyed the movie.

[pxib]

...but the whole just never sucked me in never grabbed me and I left the theater feeling unsatisfied.

Saw this over the weekend and, as much fun as I had, felt similar.

The mystery is never mysterious. I was watching events unfold rather than wondering what was going to happen next, and the answers to what few questions I had ended up silly rather than elementary. The characters were uniformly delightful -- and the screenplay and cinema catch the feel of Holmes, his friends, and his world -- but somehow the whole enterprise never grasps the fundamentals of mystery writing that were well established by the time Conan Doyle's sleuth was first put to paper.

There's also a sense of incompleteness...... that left me rolling my eyes and scratching my head rather than cheering the detective or anticipating a sequel. It was like hearing what are obviously a great jokes, only without their punchlines.

[WayAbvPar]

Finally got around to seeing this last week. Wasn't expecting much, and was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was fun. Could have used a lot less McAdams though- she was really dull. Partially the character and mostly the actress, at least for me. Looking forward to the next installment.

[Yegolev]

I found it more entertaining than the audio plays.

[Signe]

I just saw this on DVD.  It was ok.  I liked it.  Of course, I have a HUGE crush on Robert Downey, Jr.  I think it mostly fell short in the area of Guy Ritchie.  As usual. 

[Sheepherder]

The choice of music was curious.

[Ghambit]

I fell asleep in this movie.

[Signe]

I fell asleep in this movie.

Film clip or it didn't happen.

[shiznitz]

I just saw this on DVD.  It was ok.  I liked it.  Of course, I have a HUGE crush on Robert Downey, Jr.  I think it mostly fell short in the area of Guy Ritchie.  As usual. 

Ditto to all of this except thel crush on Downey.