How's that for a vacation?

Rating: 7/10 (7 July 2012)

Guy Ritchie created something really neat with 2009's "Sherlock Holmes", and manages to equal it with "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows". The part about a series of mysterious assassinations plaguing Europe and possible leading to war sounds exactly like something that governments would do to distract their populaces from any problems. Robert Downey Jr. continues his depiction of the famous detective as having another side that the audience never knew about, with Jude Law's Watson often irritated at the antics. The movie sometimes goes a little overboard on the action, but the intrigue more than makes up for it. I especially liked Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander in the "Millennium" trilogy) as the enigmatic Roma woman.
The movie probably isn't for everyone, but it pleased me.