It's elementary Watson: this movie sucked, was it Grand Theft Sherlock?

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2011)

It is ironic that Sherlock Holmes uses deduction and logic and this movie throws that out the window in favor of a confusing mess of roller coaster images.
"bullet-cam" worked very well in Three Kings but only for a few instances and brilliantly. Ritchie has invented "roller coaster cam". Guy Ritchie seems to think a "bullet-cam" should be used constantly even for the slightest scenes. It is not clever but tiring and way, way, way overdone.
The plot is weak at best and confused by constantly noisy effects and over loud music and soundtrack, and a somewhat muddled dialog track.
Sherlock Holmes in the old, old movie with Basil Rathbone, engaged the audience with clever deduction, logic, verbal bantering and clever writing and editing.
Ritchie decides to make Grand Theft Sherlock, to the horror of fans who love the subtlety of Doyle. Ritchie really needs to read Doyle before making another mess. Read the original stories folks, you will be richly rewarded.
Within a few months you will have forgotten you saw this mess, and when the third ones comes out, you will have forgotten the messy early ones.
Oh,the plot, something about world war and saving the world and war is human condition, yada, yada, yada...
I think Ritchie's mom gave him a camera for Christmas and he said, "Look ma, I can take one second shots of everything and people will think it is a movie".