Too much action not enough brains and ludicrous plot

Rating: 2/10 (18 January 2012)

Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be about clever mystery and crime solving not martial arts action, Mission Impossible style disguises and futuristic plastic surgery. Most of the plot is so impossible for the time period. The machine guns, the plastic surgery, the massive weaponry etc - it's just so wrong. There is little humor and they made Sherlock so beaten up and damaged looking.
The good points: the sets art direction provided an atmospheric visually pleasing 19th Century European feel. Old London and Paris were well recreated.
Casting: Jared Harris is a bad villain - too rough looking. Too little Rachel McAdams. She was the best thing about the first movie. Noomi Rapace is not pleasant to watch even if she looks gypsy like. Robert Downey's accent is bad and his mumbling is incomprehensible. Jude Law looks haggard and the actress playing his wife is common looking.
Guy Ritchie's direction with some sequences so fast you can't see what's going on then silly frozen nonsense just doesn't work.
Don't bother with this one it's a dud.