a funny action packed story

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2010)

Certainly a good movie, Guy Ritchie has greatly depicted an old London, making it seductive and "denaturated". The cast chosen is excellent as for the leads, barely decent as for the support actors. Given the smarts of Conan Doyles' hero, it wasn't easy to render the ironic nature of Mr Holmes but Madonna's ex husband gets to make the narrative easy to follow, never too simplistic, and with the detective skills simple to figure out. The relationship between Holmes and Watson is really funny and intriguing, Jude Law is never in the background despite his playing second fiddle. They both get to deliver charm and verve, especially the very muscular Robert Downey Jr, who embarked on one of his most interesting adventures ever.