Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Jan. 7th, 2012 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethWe saw Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows last night.
Look, it's a big, dumb action film that is only tenuously connected to the Arthur Conan-Doyle stories. It probably should have been subtitled "A Game of Explosions". It's another excuse for Robert Downey Jr. to swan around being Robert Downey Jr.
But for all that, it's actually a lot of fun. And unexpectedly intelligent.
Okay, it's not exactly profound. But all the fist-fights and gun-fights and blowing-things-up-in-slow-motion are linked together with good acting, a coherent plot, and none of the skeevy chauvinism that has marred the Steven Moffat Sherlock.
Irene Adler's still not having a good year, though.
(Steven Moffat apparently was none too happy about that Guardian article. Which is not the same thing as it being wrong.)
Look, it's a big, dumb action film that is only tenuously connected to the Arthur Conan-Doyle stories. It probably should have been subtitled "A Game of Explosions". It's another excuse for Robert Downey Jr. to swan around being Robert Downey Jr.
But for all that, it's actually a lot of fun. And unexpectedly intelligent.
Okay, it's not exactly profound. But all the fist-fights and gun-fights and blowing-things-up-in-slow-motion are linked together with good acting, a coherent plot, and none of the skeevy chauvinism that has marred the Steven Moffat Sherlock.
Irene Adler's still not having a good year, though.
(Steven Moffat apparently was none too happy about that Guardian article. Which is not the same thing as it being wrong.)
