Copy, paste and forget the secret ingredient. Still cool...

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2012)

It seems that the writers managed to detect whatever people liked from the first movie, and literally repeated that hoping to please them again. The worst is that, reading other reviews, this cheap initiative worked fine for most of them. But there's something even more threatening than cloning your own movies. In the first movie, Holmes is confronted to apparent magical powers challenging his skills and reasoning (which is the most important thing in the plot), while in the second, is the plan simply lowered to an evil strategy around warfare? You can even see Holmes and Watson holding a gun in the DVD cover and posters... food for thought.
Let me go a bit further in guessing. This reminds me what happened with The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Daemons, the former with truth and depth, the latter with lies and lack of imagination. It makes me wander if somebody from outside the cinema industry has affected both Sherlock Holmes and Da Vinci Code sequels for some reason.
One more thing, the dialogs are twisted way too much, compared to the meaningful, short and hilarious punch lines succeeded in the first movie.
Now the good thing about A Game of Shadows is the adventure, the chemistry between the actors and that this version of Sherlock Holmes is totally enjoyable and cool. I'll buy the DVD and watch it... the way Holmes would like us to watch it.