very modern

Rating: 8/10 (2 January 2010)

It is a Guy Ritchie movie through and through. Frankly he might diversify his directing techniques a bit. Having said that, I like his style and I liked the film. The acting is top notch, the music interesting (nothing "English" about it...), two gorgeous women, fast tempo... What I disliked was too much editing of the fighting scenes, at times impossible to see who was doing what, but I guess it is a malaise of most young directors these days. The CGI-created London was a bit too dark and monotonous, and a bit artificial at times. Holmes's clothes were too "bohemian" and out of touch I think, I know he was a rogue character, very eccentric and so, but still very British, no?? The way he dressed was more apt for... Tom Sawyer, too American. The bit about "re-conquering the colony across the Atlantic" was tad corny, Ritchie playing to the US audience too much here. What surprised me, and I have not seen any comments on it, is how Ritchie ridiculed the greatest myth of Christianity: that of Jesus' resurrection. The same was done in the French phenomenal costume drama "The Brotherhood of the Wolves" a few years back, and also nobody seemed to notice it then, or maybe nobody cared. Well, I do not care either.