The new Sherlock Holmes is a victorian buddy-movie,that doesn't mean that it's bad.Moreover,Robert Downer Jr. is fantastic.
"It's Lord Blackwood sir.It seems...he's returning from the grave."
The story is it's weak point of the movie.Do you know the bad guys from the Bond-films,those who want the whole world?Lord Blackwood is a similar guy,all but one:it looks,he couldn't be murderd.And that's what the film is about,Holmes and Watson's chase trough London.These guys don't want to be late,so they don't stop on every corner,just for a short punch-up,or a beautiful woman.And smoke?And where's the deerstalker?Guy Richie doesn't know what is that,so we can forget it.
"Watson,what have you done?"
Every one knows the special Holmes-theme from the Jeremy Brett-series (if you don't,here you can listen to it) .
Hans Zimmer composed a very different Holmes-theme (here you can listen to it) .If you listen both of them,you see how different the classic and the new Holmes-adaptation is.It's good to see,nothing's permanent,everything changes with the world.A today's child doesn't intrested in the logical explanations.But the mills are exiting enough,and the jokes are funny to engage them.Holmes and Watson are disposed to jarring,and that's dammed funny.
"Mr.Holmes,it's a quite new case.You underrated the gravity of comming events."
Holmes changed a lot.He's a philanderer,a smart detectiv,he punches everybody,his is insolent,sometimes he bursts in anger and he's not able to fiddle.And he has got a girlfriend,Irene Adler.But Watson's more surprising.He's not that clod-hopper.Jude Law,our best romantic actor's character's charming,but he's the stable table leg under Holmes's roll desk.He's wife is Mary Morsten.
"Holmes,your own deprevity have no known bounds." "No."
Richie,the director of Lock,stock and two smoking barrels,Snatch and RocknRolla always had good charcters,but this time he concentrates on the victorian London's set,and he had a good job.He borrowed the scene from Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd-The demon barber of Fleet Street.The filthy,dirty,snuffy locations are pukka,and the actors move very well in the set.The picture is clean,and transparent.The final cut is very good,so congratulations cutter!
"The case is closed."
9/10
