Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows...1.5 out of 4 Skittles

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2012)

The sequel, like 2009's original, is average at best. Michele and Kieran Mulroney, best known for writing and directing the bizarre movie Paper Man in 2009, find a way to produce a screenplay that makes the literary legend of Sherlock Holmes boring. Heavy descriptive dialogue scenes make every conversation feel very forced, and makes you pray for the next action sequence to hurry up and come.
Unfortunately, even the action couldn't save the movie from drifting off into snooze-ville. Guy Ritchie's directing style worked well in his past films Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but comes across as very jarring here. His endless quick cuts and slow-mo action shots stripped the film of any excitement and give it an endless snail pace.
Downey Jr. and Law deliver a few laughs together, and their chemistry attempts to give this movie some semblance of entertainment value, but in the end the it has too many strikes against it for them to overcome. This movie does a disservice to the legend of Sherlock Holmes, and made me wish I would have just stayed home and read about one of his adventures in a book instead.
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