Good but we expected much better

Rating: 7/10 (19 December 2011)

I loved the first Sherlock Holmes movie and couldn't wait to see this one. Before I went to the theater I was worried by some of the reviews that I saw posted, but I went into the film with an open mind. Well after the first couple of scenes I could see why the critics downgraded this movie and that's ashame. I think that Robert Downey Jr. is the perfect Holmes and in the first film, yes he was quirky but not annoying. In this film he has moments where annoying comes through. The film makers are making the same mistake that way made with the Pirates movies. In the first Pirate movie Jack Sparrow was quirky brilliant and in the second some of the brilliance remained but the quirkiness was starting to take the forefront. In the last two film quirky had taken over, especially the last. This is the same thing I see happening to Sherlock Holmes. He is a brilliant detective with a few idiocracies but they are staring to change him into a clown.
I also didn't like all of the choppy camera work and there was way too much of the slow motion. It works in the last scenes with Holmes and the Professor but by that time you've had so much that you might be ready to tune out and thus the meaning of the mental battle is lost. I hope that if they decide on doing another (I don't think the box office will be as big as it was for the first movie though) I hope they go back to the brilliant Holmes and leave the quirky at home.