There is some tension brewing in my head regarding Sherlock Holmes. First we had a brilliant and somewhat revisionist take from Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie in Sherlock Holmes a few years ago and I loved it. Then, something changed in between that film and it's sequel: Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock. I love both of the Holmes movies only now I look at Downey and I no longer see Sherlock, what I see is a pale ghost of what Cumberbatch brings to the small screen.
On it's own merits it is a great movie. Everything I liked about the first movie is back and Law and Downey throw verbal jabs off each other as well as anyone. This time we even got treated to Jared Harris as Moriarty, and I hate to say it again but it is no where neat as nuanced as Andrew Scotts portrayal on the BBC.
This all sounds rather doom and gloom, but again I had a really good time. I didn't like Noomi Rapace in the film, she did a great job with what was given to her it just felt her role was not as needed as the film makers wanted us to believe. In the end A Game of Shadows will have to settle for my second slot of favorite Holmes adaptations, but that in no means is a bad place to be.
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