It is silly to hope of an authentic Sherlock Holmes movie at this epoch. Regardless of the time the story set in 1895 in Victorian London, the movie must be stuffed with all modern movie techniques such as explosions, gunfire, image effects and fights that are totally different from the fistfightof that period.
In "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," many scences screening Victorian London, Paris and Switzerland, but it runs fast. The movie all but hurtles through episodes that would be relaxedly set pieces in old Holmes story. This is as a modern action picture played in costume. There're no time to rethink the approach, after the great sucess of Sherlock Holmes (2009). However, this time, there're more refinement and creativeness.
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" begins with a situation that may change Holmes's world: Dr. Watson is getting married. His engagement to Mary Watson (Kelly Reilly) was in the first sequel, and now a date has been set. Holmes (Downey), who regards himself as the best company that the doctor could find, feel a little sorrow about this, but still joins the happy couple on their honeymoon train journey. And in that unlucky journey, he must thow Mary off the train to save her life.
The movie revolves around the rivalry between Holmes and Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris) – an Oxford don, who is the brain of a secret anarchist plan to use bombings and assassinations to drive Europe into war. As Moriarty owns an huge secret munitions mill producing all kinds of weapons from machine guns to gigantic cannons, he would make a lot of money from that. And Holmes is the only hope to save the world from war, which would endangere lives and existences of European citizens.
If the war happened, it would be out of reach of the eccentric investigator of 221B Baker Street and Watson. It's then the case for James Bond, and Moriarty's grandiosity seems on a scale with a Bond villain. However, Guy Ritchie and his writers Michele and Kieran Mulroney wisely spend some of their best scenes to man-to-man between Holmes and Moriarty.
Their battle progresses to a head in a graceful, high-stakes chess game, carried on in Switzerland in the dead of a winter night on a snowy outdoor balcony. In this movie, Moriarty doesn't gnash or rail, but contends with Holmes in biting language. This turn the movie to Conan Doyle's initiate images about Holmes with his mind working perfectly.
Unlike other Sherlock Holmes movies, in "A Game of Shadows", Dr. Watson has a more proactive role. The movie opens with him recalling the whole adventures on a typewriter that is too modern for 1895 but maybe suggests he's writing years later. There are many scences in which we see Dr Watson uses fists and guns. Luckily his wife didn't see most of the action as she was thrown out by Holmes.
In the center of European diplomacy, Mycroft (Stephen Fry)- Holmes' brother is a funny role, especially when he is nude and shields his netherlands by using arranged foregrounds in the "Austin Powers" tradition. In this movie, we also meet Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), the mysterious character in much romantic speculation about Holmes, and a gipsy fortune teller, Madame Simza Heron, played by Noomi Rapace.
Robert Downey with his calm and flexibility, drives his character out from the danger, thinks thoroughly before performs it without worry. He appears in many disguises, one with a markedly bad wig, another as a remarkably convincing chair. This is not a traditional Sherlock Holmes with what we remember of the Conan Doyle stories, it is a enjoyable high-caliber entertaining movie. So just put aside your memories of the Conan Doyle stories, and enjoy it.
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