REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES LEGACY OF DEEDS PROFESSIONAL
REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES LEGACY OF DEEDS SERIES

REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES LEGACY OF DEEDS PROFESSIONAL

Skirting the fringes is shadowy Professor Moriarty, the criminal mastermind of Conan Doyle’s tales, introduced here as Holmes’ next great enemy for the inevitable sequel.Įddie Marsan is perfectly cast as Scotland Yard Inspector Lestrade, the professional who deigns to let Holmes dabble in detection, happy to take credit when his amateur ally cracks a case.

REVIEW SHERLOCK HOLMES LEGACY OF DEEDS SERIES

Hanged for a series of ritual murders, Blackwood won’t stay in his grave, returning to terrorize London with an assault on Parliament aimed to bring him absolute power. Holmes’ big mystery is the case of Lord Blackwood (Ritchie regular Mark Strong, who physically resembles Conan Doyle’s Holmes far more than Downey). Downey’s Holmes admires McAdams’ Irene for the whole comely package, and purists will groan over the puppy-dog caresses of Sherlock in love.īut did we mention that McAdams is ravishing in every scene?

The literary Holmes admired Irene for her mind. Ravishing in every scene, Rachel McAdams was born to wear the sort of velvety, frilly Victorian garb she dons as Irene Adler, a cunning foil to Holmes as well as his romantic interest, the most-extreme revision by Ritchie and company.Ĭonan Doyle’s Holmes was a monk who had no time or respect for women, save, in one thin story, a schemer named Irene Adler, the only woman who ever outsmarted him. Jude Law heads the supporting cast as Holmes’ colleague, Watson, less a loyal sidekick in Ritchie’s creation than an odd-couple roomie in a bickering-buddy bromance. It’s nonsense, a dumb Hollywood treatment that’s beneath Holmes but is made watchable, even exhilarating at times, by clever chases and scuffles, a superb recreation of old London in its splendor and squalor, and the amiable interplay of the actors. The failing of Ritchie - and a team of four writers who share story or screenwriting credit - is the drab plot they built around Holmes, an uninspired tale of a secret society and potentially supernatural doings. So why shouldn’t Ritchie put his London-rogues-and-rascals spin on Holmes and cast the detective into a brawn-over-brain action epic? After all, Conan Doyle’s Holmes tales - particularly the novel-length ones - could be action rip-roarers.

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