Boring, Monochromatic, Unintelligible

Rating: 1/10 (31 October 2019)

Jude Law was the best part of this horrible mess; he actually did a decent job of portraying Dr. Watson, even with bad dialogue and direction. I normally love Robert Downey Jr.,but not in this; half of his dialogue was mumbled, whispered or spoken so fast it was difficult to understand. I'm not familiar with Rachel McAdams so I don't know if she is always a horrible actress, or was just bad in this. Everything is monochromatic gray, brown, murky and depressing; it might as well have been filmed in black and white. Except of course Irene Adler who was bright scarlet, perhaps because she's a scarlet woman? (eye roll), which just made it campy. And when did Sherlock Holmes become a ninja? I thought it had morphed into a Jackie Chan movie. I'm sorry, I read Arthur Conan Doyle's books and this would have him spinning in his grave. It's one pointless fight scene after another with boring dialogue, boring characters, boring scenery, boring direction and a boring plot. At points, it appeared to be trying to emulate Snatch (another Guy Ritchie movie that was actually well done) which just did not work here. Almost everyone's facial expressions and reactions seemed over done; from a lot of people who are normally much better actors, so I assume again it's bad direction. I finally shut it off maybe halfway through; I just didn't care what happened. and I was bored senseless.