A refreshing film on the myth of Sherlock Holmes

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2013)

This is very good and quite refreshing film that manages to re-invent the myth of Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes is portrayed here by Robert Downey Jr in a relatively young age (late thirties/early forties). He is therefore a more passionate and foul-mouthed individual than the one we all know from Conan Doyle's stories. His clever but hasty remarks sometimes bring him into trouble and he ends up in some awkward social situations.
Nonetheless, do not make the mistake to underestimate the man. He has tremendous deductive abilities and sense of observation and judgment that make him an extremely capable detective.
I thought Robert Downey Jr was great in this role. The big surprise for me, however, was Jude Law. He plays Watson amazingly well and his interaction with Sherlock Holmes provides the strongest point in this film and makes it what it is. The ways Watson reacts to Holmes decisions creates marvelous dialogue between the two friends making Watson the alter ego of the gifted but a bit immature famous detective. One of the very good films of the year. The recreation of London of the times of Holmes is also quite of an achievement.