Sherlock Holmes Movie Review

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A film based on the novels, Sherlock Holmes is a film that really delivers and gives a refreshing new look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original character. With the plethora of other Sherlock Holmes movies, this one has that extra bit of “oomph” in it. While other Sherlock Holmes films, such as the 2010 direct-to-dvd with the same name, have loose plots and unbelievable characters, director Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla) is on track with this one incorporating a Sherlock Holmes with a different personality and exhilarating action sequences. Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) who is about to commit a sixth ritualistic murder is stopped by Holmes (Downey Jr) and is sent to jail, after which he is sentenced to death by hanging. Before his hanging Blackwood asks to meet with Holmes where he tells him of three inevitable deaths that will end the world as Holmes knows it. Blackwood is then hanged where he is pronounced dead after being checked by Dr Watson. Three days later, Holmes is visited by Irene Adler (McAdams), a professional thief and his former adversary, who asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. After Blackwood’s hanging his tomb is found destroyed and the police, along with Holmes and Dr Watson (Jude Law) discover that instead of Blackwood, the man in the coffin is Luke Reordan. The groundskeeper of the graveyard claims he saw Blackwood come out of the coffin as if he was rising from the dead. The idea of a detective investigating a mystery with a superstitious element might sound like it will have an easily deducible plot with a polite, down to earth, detective. However, Sherlock Holmes does not have an easily deducible plot and nor does it have a polite, down to earth polite detective. In fact it has exactly the opposite, an intricate plot filled with twists and turns, and a bad mannered, witty, and extremely spontaneous detective. Someone
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