Magic and clever investigation replaced with fights and CGI

Rating: 4/10 (1 September 2012)

I truly hate Hollywood when they totally destroy an original idea/concept or old great character and then they proceed to 'rambo- modify' it to fit the actual time.
Sherlock Homes, the first one was a complete and utter useless movie and the second part seems to do pretty much the same.
The great charisma of Robert Downey Jr does not save the movie from it's obvious flaws.. and they all converge into just one point. Character.
Actual Hollywood seems to think that Sherlock Holmes is boring, so, they mutated his character into some kind of SWAT-Rambo-Hard-to-Kill-Know-all- Kung-Fu-Styles person.
This completely annihilate the concept of the Sherlock doing detective work, the mind over matter, intelligence over physical attributes... I could go on and on..
Game of Shadows gets deeper into this game, alternating action scenes with calm scenes with abundance of useless dialog pretending to be intelligent but, in the end, only confuses their audience.
The movie has too much action for a "Sherlock Holmes" or, any detective movie that could be called like that.
This all could be forgotten if we somehow had some interesting characters, a compelling storyline or some kind of magic in the film itself, but, none of this are present.
Instead, we get a flat movie that displays as a succession of one scene after the other with no connection whatsoever between them, really great actors with stupid lines and no compelling reason to do what they do.
I totally lost hope for a nice Sherlock Holmes movie and suggest anyone looking for a intelligent and challenging movie to look elsewhere, this is just popcorn junk delivered to young audiences that have absolutely no idea who Sherlock Holmes actually was.
Oh, and the Matrix-Like scenes about Sherlock taking down enemies, it probably was a good scene if it was in "Terminator XX", but done in a movie about a charismatic detective with a talent for thinking, it feels SO wrong..
Not worth the title, probably if they changed it to anything else would be a passable popcorn movie, but exploiting such a wonderful character as this, is insulting.
Sad times indeed for cinema.