Can't quite put my finger on why I disliked it

Rating: 4/10 (6 June 2012)

This is very odd. On the surface, this movie has all the requisite elements of good movie: nice sets with detail, mood, cast, sharp dialog, surprise death, action, fight scenes, etc...
So how did it go wrong???
Here's how I felt - like I knew what was coming; but even though I did not it still seemed contrived and stale. I felt somewhat mocked by this movie, like the original was such a success that there was no need to put forth real effort to make it special. it was a boring string of events in a patent formula...............witty remark, somber condescending look, conflict, clever overreaching resolution, pepper with fisticuffs, witty remark, pretend self-destructive narcissistic behavior is cute. Then lather rinse and repeat throughout movie.
kudos for the early death of Amy McAdams. She's decent but that opening scene with the package was beat. It was like watching two lovebirds on the phone going, "you hang up....no you hang up,no you hang up.....OK I'm gonna hang up, I know you didn't hang up...you hang up" ad nauseam.......... heavy on the nauseam.
We get it already, Sherlock is so clever that he knows what everyone does before they do it. Oh wait, he actually admits that he made a mistake....hey viewers see his flaw, doesn't that make him more human and relatable???? Nope.
Of course we know he did not die at the end - why? Because he's too clever for dying.
PS - Watson's wife is a bore.