Poor follow up

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2009)

Guy Ritchie can do better.
Anyone who watched Rock'n Rolla would be disappointed with his latest effort. Sure, his Holmes if new and gritty and affable enough but where is the darkness of Guy's other movies? This movie can't make up its mind if it's a comedy or a dark fable. Certainly it's not a mystery story which is what one might have expected from a Holmes story.
It's not a love story either. Not quite a fight movie. Not quite a film noir. In fact it's not quite anything really. Frankensteinish in its multi-faceted cleverness, it missed the mark I'm sure Ritchie had in mind when he started.
In short, a big disappointment.