Entertaining and disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2012)

I liked the first Sherlock Holmes a lot: the pace was good, the acting too and the chemistry between Holmes and Watson excellent. Quite an arbitrary reinvention of the character, but an enjoyable one: I appreciated that psychopathic facet of Holmes taken to paradox and the injection of fun and action. Yet it was still Sherlock Holmes, the genial detective, whose logic skills are beyond human. In the second movie one can find all the good ingredients of the first, but Sherlock Holmes: now that he has found his match and his nemesis, one would expect the main game to be played on the court of cleverness, one would want to assist a titanic chess game between the genius of investigation and the genius of crime, a sequence of formidable moves and counter-moves leading to plot twists one after the other. In truth, there is nothing of this: lots of speaking of cat and mouse games, but no cats, no mice and no game. It's not even worth to post spoilers... everything is so predictable.