A fun,smart movie with an excellent main character.

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2012)

I've just watched Sherlock Holmes for the first time and i wanted to tell what i thought of it.
I'm going to list the things i didn't like first:

The villain (Lord Blackwood) is kinda generic and not interesting. He's not that interesting and i didn't really care for him. He was just someone who is the villain. Nothing more, nothing less.

Some of the editing of this movie are a bit flashy and a mess during the flashbacks. It's a style that the movie takes but for me its annoying.

The soundtrack is okay. But they use the same tune over and over again. It's a nice tune, sure. But a little bit of variation would be better.

Now the things I really liked:

Robbert Downey Jr. is the perfect Sherlock Holmes for this movie. The best Sherlock in my opinion is Benedict Cumberbatch in the TV-series Sherlock (2010). But that's another story. Sherlock is a really smart man and Robbert plays that role perfectly. The smart-ass comeback lines are hilarious and he's sarcastic in the way only he can pull of. On at all, a great performance.

Jude Law is a really good Watson. Trustful and when he needs to be Bad-ass. And you feel with him that he has to put op with Sherlock all the time. Great performance.

The scene with the slowmotion fighting (the cage match) was absolutely brilliant. The phasing and the thoughts of Sherlock are awesome and smart.

I like that this movie is a smart movie. A lot of clever (fast) dialogue and also really smart jokes. Just perfect.

All around this is a fun, smart movie. Great performances (for the most part) and really clever dialogue. It gets a 8.4/10
EDIT: After thinking about it I must lower the score from a 8.4 to a 7.9. Fun movie, but no 8.4 (;
This was my review. Peace off.