It’s elementary my dear Watson. If the first movie were to take in large sums of gold, then we shall have another.
Robert Downey Jr. is back for another round of sleuthing in the sequel to the 2009 Guy Ritchie movie “Sherlock Holmes.” For me, it wasn’t a bad movie but just wasn’t as good as I dreamed it would be. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law make a good Holmes/Watson duo but the movie just lacked that ‘pop’ for me in the end.
The first “Sherlock Holmes” made over $200 million at the domestic box office during the 2009 holiday season and added another $315 million overseas. Anytime you’re flirting with the 1/2 billion mark, well, you’re gonna see more.
So here comes “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” the sequel due out in theaters this December. Guy Ritchie returns behind the directors chair and seems to be still going with that slo-mo thing.
Professor Moriaty is here and played by the talented, and underrated, Jared Harris. “Mad Men” fans will appreciate the addition. Noomi Rapace, the Swedish “it” girl at the moment, is the damsel in distress
Check out the trailer below.
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room…until now.
There is a new criminal mastermind at large–Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)–and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder–a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.
Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen’s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince’s murder makes her the killer’s next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland.
But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction–all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history
