Very enjoyable, quite a Bruckheimerish treatment of Sherlock.

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2010)

Fine performances by Downey Jr. as Holmes and Law as Watson, Macadams as the lady friend/thief working both sides of the street is okay too. Enjoyed the action (esp. the exploding barrels/slaughter-house locales), the CGI backdrops for London Bridge etc, and the filming in Prague added to the atmosphere.
Much of the plot is nonsense involving the Illuminati, fake resurrections, Guy Fawkes plot by way of Cyanide and the like. I liked Lestrade by the way. Pretty funny way of playing him.
Some of the movies stylistic touches-inter-cutting of images/fast edits etc/the odd instant flashback-got old in a hurry, but you can live w/ it. The choices they made in how Holmes was played-his computerlike mind, his odd attachment to his bow, his pipe, Watson and his opium-are shown clearly but in new ways. Downey makes this one go, as is always the case of late.
By all means lets have another couple--this is a fun flick and worth seeing.
*** outta ****