billcarr31 Well not really as I was not as impressed as many seem to have been by the first one. What a shame that a movie with such good productions values and sets, although most of them are only seen for seconds, is so over burdened with pointless dramatics. Notions like putting a platoon of redcoats on a train with a machine gun to kill a man and his wife are too ludicrous for words. A pistol or a small bomb would have done a better job. Of course Holmes dispatches the whole platoon with ease, even somehow making a time bomb from a brass a tap and a toilet chain pull. This was done so quickly that the point of making a bomb was lost. Holmes mentally planning his fights was also silly, you cannot plan a fight like that as you do not know what your opponent's counter moves will. It broke the continuity of the encounters and wasted time. How as Watson an able to get the explosives in place to bring down the tower on Moriarty? There were also many anacronisms such as was directly injecting adrenaline into the heart known in the Victorian age? The whole thing was reminiscent of the super hero genre. Personally I think the Cumberbatch/Freeman series and the Holmes in New York series much more connected to the original characters

HotToastyRag Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. While I still maintain that the films would have been more enjoyable if the casting were reversed, the way each character is written is cemented even further in this second installment. Robert Downey Jr. is the eccentric detective, and Jude Law is the boring, superfluous straight man who's consistently annoyed by his partner's antics. The setting for this film is Jude Law's wedding to Kelly Reilly. In the art of storytelling, when a character is married the audience is usually supposed to see that his or her journey is complete and their usefulness to the plot is over. So, Jude Law's character is viewed as even more boring and superfluous!As Jude and Kelly are supposed to be enjoying their honeymoon, the famed villain Moriarty, played by Jared Harris, attacks, leaving Bob to save the day, and leaving Jude to continuously complain that he'd rather be enjoying his wife than fighting bad guys. Still, if you liked the first film, Sherlock Holmes, you'll probably like the sequel. The action-comedies are pretty similar, and director Guy Ritchie returns with his slow-motion action scenes. These aren't my favorite Sherlock Holmes films, but they're not terrible either. I just would have preferred Jude Law as the lead.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (2011)After the immense success of a reinvention of the "Sherlock Holmes" theme created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1931) through Director Guy Ritchie in making it a competing comic book adaptation punisher, where picture, sounds and music comes together in ultra-slow-motion shots generated by an Phantom HD Camera combined with Panavision Primo Lenses in Philipp Rousselot's camera department, which benefits an intriguing, well-twisted, yet sensation-mongering, injuiced with slight humorous slapsticked screenplay by Michele and Kieran Mulroney to challenge any recent fantasy action movie even after six years in the circuit.The cast surrounding Robert Downey Jr., as the street fighting version of an Sherlock Holmes character, with Dr. Watson, portrayed by matchmaking Jude Law to a further benefiting female cast beat challenging actress Rachel McAdams and second sidekicking supporting actress Noomi Rapace as Madame Simzo Heron, hunt to follow spider-web spreading Holmes' nemesis Professor James Moriarty, in viciously venom-breathing intelligence-exceeding performance by actor Jared Harris, even back-shadowing the character of Lord Blackwood by Mark Strong from the initiative "Sherlock Holmes" (2009).Producer Joel Silver, again showing his qualities in letting the director do his thing, overthrew himself with Warner Bros. Studios concerning marketing strategies of this clearly improving picture over the 2009er version in puncto drive, pace and event action for the holiday season escapology theories of U.S. domestic movie-goers, which should have filled more seats worldwide without the inability to place it apart against a raging much more PR-clarified "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" and the hard-core loving minority at screenings of the English-speaking remake of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" directed by David Fincher, making the winter 2011/2012 easily the best holiday season of a decade, where quality and daring creative choices on-set ruled a Hollywood production.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

sanjayasantoso I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that this second movie didn't as good as the first one.. From the performance, Robert Downey Jr. has did it again with his character as Sherlock Holmes, even Dr. John Watson's performance by Jude Law really got a lot of improvement too.. But their performance didn't help a lot as the story of this movie got the audiences a little confusing even though I know it's quite brilliant to make some twist like that.. The other disappointment is Noomi Rapace's performance which is for me just like a sweetener because of the death of Irene Adler, but she's nowhere for replacing Irene Adler.. Overall, for me this sequel is a little disappointment but I must appreciate Guy Ritchie's work since he did his best in here so this rating is the best that I can give to this movie..