Expected much more

Rating: 5/10 (6 October 2015)

Sherlock Holmes is a detective done many many times, but not in such an action orientated way, until now. Yes Guy Ritchie throws us into Victorian London and all the dark alleys you can bare for one movie, he not only creates a detective story but also makes Sherlock Holmes a dirty fighter as well. For me this movie was well kind of disappointing, I mean don't get me wrong this movie is not bad and I'd never tell someone to not watch it but it feels mediocre and just like a typically made movie full of action but the bad thing about all that action is it tries to divert you away from the poor parts of this movie.
Our story see's Holmes living in 1891 and he is of course working with his as ever present partner Dr. John Watson who is also his closest friend(if you could say he indeed really has any). The story revolves around a plot to basically take over the British Empire with supposed black magic; yes this is truly some supervillain stuff going on. Holmes is portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. who makes Holmes kind of seem a little mad, I mean through his mumblings you can barely make out what he says but I did feel RDJ was OK and right for the role too. Jude Law is Watson and again he is OK but my main problem with both Holmes and Watson together is they really lack any chemistry when on screen, I felt when they were apart they were better as characters and although the odd joke works well between them, all in all it is fairly poor.
I liked but also disliked Guy Ritchie I mean he knows how to get this movie done, he churns out a movie that just goes over 2 hours and manages to at least make it bearable and not exactly boring. My main dislike is though that he throws into your face a kind of overly smart feeling, he wants Holmes to look smart and cool but for me he just doesn't feel that cool, sure the action scenes look good but as a character I disliked a lot of the lines given to RDJ where he is trying to make Sherlock look smart or funny. The ending is the best part of the movie; it is exciting at least and contains moments that make this slightly more enjoyable. The start is the slowest part of this and it feels like it takes a little too long to truly kick in with the pace it truly wants to go at.
What can be said is actually really good about this? ,well actually it has it's fine moments, the score by Hans Zimmer is nicely done and really sets the scenes well, one of the more memorable things contained in this. I enjoyed the Victorian setting as it looks nice and the sets and also to mention the costumes looks great, I respect Ritchie for getting the overall vibe right, dark when it wants to be but not always. I will say though this movie does feel like a Hollywood action movie shoved into a bottle and relabelled as Sherlock Holmes, it never quite gets it right I felt and yet again as I say people can enjoy this, for me it just didn't work though.
It's an average movie that lacks substance and also any refreshing new ideas that could have made this really quite great. The problems don't amount too a lot I mean this just amounts to a movie that is underwhelming but not exactly bad though, in fact it's not even poor in my opinion. One thing to say is that a certain person who I won't mention for spoiler reasons who is basically the bad person in this is really good and the person playing them plays a great villain's job, kind of ruined though by the overall plot. I think what it had to do was create a movie that didn't feel stale and also didn't have to divert the viewers attention from the under lying story with thrills and big fight scenes, I see why Ritchie did it though because I feel it worked.