I enjoyed it, but not as much as I was hoping to.

Rating: Null/10 (4 May 2010)

Since it is a Guy Richie film I was expecting it to be wild and different, and there I wasn't disappointed. Much in the way I was not disappointed with "Snatch." But there is something about this film, it is hard to put my finger on it, that didn't gel right with me. Maybe it came across as a bit too cartoonish, over the top.
Still, Robert Downey Jr. is good as the legendary Sherlock Holmes. Although I found that he tried a bit too hard to sound authentic British and some of his mumbling was difficult to understand.
Jude Law was his faithful assistant Dr. John Watson, and their partnership on screen worked well, I thought.
Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, thief and love interest of Holmes', was a nice addition.
Mark Strong is an actor that I am not particularly familiar with, although I now realize I have seen some movies he was in, but here he is excellent as Lord Blackwood, who it seems is using ancient magic to gain power. His ambition is high, to eventually re-take that colony, now known as the USA.
The story devolves into Holmes and Watson figuring out how to defeat Blackwood and to stem the tide of killings Blackwood is responsible for.
The film used an editing technique that really added something. Holmes was, among other things, an expert at fighting. So a couple of times when he was about to pull some fast-action fighting moves we saw in very slow motion what he was about to do, as it was described in his own voice, then we saw the actual moves in fast motion. I like that technique.