Guy Ritchie brings down Holmes

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2009)

Guy Ritchie is the wrong director for this character.
We saw this at xmas and while it was entertaining, and there were some very useful inventions in the cinematic experience, many scenes were overwrought with CGI.
To wit: the fight scene on the bridge totally lacked continuity and was, as a locus and so obviously CGI severely detracted from the story and was, in my opinion, unnecessary.
To his credit, however, the scenes where Holmes maps his strategy in his mind's eye and it is preplayed on the screen, were positively genius.
Robert Downey, Jr. is indeed a worthy, nay, necessary embodiment of Holmes, and Jude Law is a believable Watson.
There is no doubt this film is positioned as a franchise with as many iterations has Doyle had stories, and a prequel would be most satisfactory.