Very disappointing.

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2018)

Well not really as I was not as impressed as many seem to have been by the first one. What a shame that a movie with such good productions values and sets, although most of them are only seen for seconds, is so over burdened with pointless dramatics. Notions like putting a platoon of redcoats on a train with a machine gun to kill a man and his wife are too ludicrous for words. A pistol or a small bomb would have done a better job. Of course Holmes dispatches the whole platoon with ease, even somehow making a time bomb from a brass a tap and a toilet chain pull. This was done so quickly that the point of making a bomb was lost.
Holmes mentally planning his fights was also silly, you cannot plan a fight like that as you do not know what your opponent's counter moves will. It broke the continuity of the encounters and wasted time. How as Watson an able to get the explosives in place to bring down the tower on Moriarty? There were also many anacronisms such as was directly injecting adrenaline into the heart known in the Victorian age? The whole thing was reminiscent of the super hero genre.
Personally I think the Cumberbatch/Freeman series and the Holmes in New York series much more connected to the original characters