Arthur Conan Doyle'un dünyaca ünlü karakteri Sherlock Holmes?ün dinamik yeni uyarlamasında, Holmes ve cesur ortağı Watson en son maceralarına atılıyorlar.
Dövüş tekniklerini, efsanevi zekası gibi silah olarak kullanan Holmes, bu macerasında ülkesini yok edebilecek ölümcül bir komployu aydınlatmak için yeni bir düşman ile savaşıyor.
Robert Downey Jr. , efsanevi dedektif Sherlock Holmes'ü daha önce hiç yapılmamış bir şekilde canlandırıyor.
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I have a question for Joel Silver, one of the proud creators of ?the bigger and louder the better? school: Why is his new mega budget action project called Sherlock Holmes? Why not Merlock Molmes, or Derlock Dolmes? If the characters in the film remind us more of Neo and Morpheus than the famous piped detective and his uptight doctor sidekick then what's the point of plastering the title of Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved series on all the promotional material?
Of course I understand that the Sherlock Holmes name is familiar to the audience. Also, ?The Alchoholic Detective Who Talks Like He Lives In The 21. Century and Uses 21. Century Fighting Techniques But Somehow Lives In The 19. Century and The Doctor Whose Sole Purpose of Existence Is To Become The Butt of Stale Homoerotic Jokes? would have been too long of a title.
If I was writing a review of Derlock Molmes instead of Sherlock Holmes, I would tell you that we have an instantly forgettable, utterly predictable blockbuster dreck. But the title makes it all the more confusing.
The first and biggest problem lies in Robert Downey Jr.?s portrayal of Holmes, which reminded me of an unholy mixture of Tony Stark and an alcoholic street fighter rather than the famous detective. Of course, a minimal amount of a detective mystery is inserted in between long, overdrawn action scenes of Holmes beating up one henchman after the other, running away from giant explosions and of course dangling the bad guy off of a tall structure during the climax. It's as if the writers (too many to name) suddenly remembered that they are required to pen a detective story while writing the scene where Holmes fight the same giant henchman for the fifth time.
Jude Law as Doctor Watson is one of the rare good casting choices, along with Mark Strong as the evil Lord Blackwood. Apart from Watson suddenly turning into a cage fighter during the long fight scenes that bring the narrative to a screeching halt, Law creates a rationalist who is struggling to create a normal life for himself in the middle of Holmes? willful chaos.
As for Ex-Mr. Madonna, Guy Ritchie?s first foray into big budget Hollywood fare is quite a big improvement over the utter fiascos he unleashed on us during the 2000s. This is not saying much considering a five-year-old with a cell phone camera will probably produce better films than Swept Away and Revolver. And don't mention RocknRolla, ?cause I already forgot about it.
With Holmes, Ritchie actually offers a pretty flat direction compared to his ultra-kinetic cockney gangster style. Every once in a while, the Snatch style fast cutting and changing the camera speed during the same shot presents itself, especially during the scenes where Holmes is previsioning the ways he's going to subdue his opponent, some of the only inspired sequences in the film.
Going by the ending Sherlock Holmes ripped off from Batman Begins, there will probably be a sequel. All we can hope is for the next chapter to be more creative and less painfully paint-by-numbers. For now, don't expect too much Sherlock Holmes from Sherlock Holmes.
