Quality(opinionated): A good reboot of the stories, with good action and a very engaging story. Positive Role Models And Representations(2/5): Greed is balanced by Holmes' good nature, despite him having a questionable attitude towards many thing. Positive Messages(2/5): Messages about creativity, being aware of your surroundings, courage, and friendship. Blackwood's hanging in the beginning was false, and we then see him hanged at a dock by accident, his corpse is seen hanging. An explosion occurs at a slaughterhouse filled with dead animals, and Holmes and Watson's injuries are later seen. A man is lit on fire, and another is drowned quite brutally. One long extended fight between Sherlock and Dredger results in a ship in construction falling into the sea and destroying a building. Violence(4/5): Graphic, brutal fistfights throughout with focus on tons of painful things such as broken bones and spitting blood, including guns being fired. A brief innuendo.ĭrinking, Drugs, And Smoking(2/5): Pipe smoking and infrequent beer drinking. A woman undresses and her nude back is seen but nothing else. Sex(3/5): Sherlock is handcuffed to his bed nude with pillows covering his private parts, and a woman is disgusted after she assumes sexual intent. Language(1/5): One use of "bugger", "arse", "damn", "hell", and "bastard".
#Movie review sherlock holmes 2009 movie#
A fellow reviewer (Ed Douglas of Coming Soon) put it well when he said the film was a cross between Batman Begins and the first Pirates of the Caribbean.Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery action movie directed by Guy Richie and starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Mark Strong, Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, and Hans Matheson. It would have been great if they had portrayed her as strong through the entire film instead of having her need rescuing towards the end.
#Movie review sherlock holmes 2009 full#
The only reason I didn't give it a full 5 star rating is because I was disappointed with how they handled Rachel McAdams' character as the film went on.
I had a smile on my face through most of the film - and for what it is: A fun action/adventure movie with humor, danger, a good story and great characters, it knocks it out of the park. While this film has its dark elements, I have to say it was a lot of fun overall. a lively and at times percussive mix that just highlighted the excitement. Guy Ritchie did a great job of mixing humor and danger, and the choice to go with Hans Zimmer for the music was a winner - I absolutely loved the choices they made for the soundtrack. Of course Holmes must piece together how Blackwood manages to come back to life and has to try to figure out what he is up to and stop him. He is stopped by our dynamic duo and just as they are finishing up the police arrive.īlackwood is captured but even behind bars he is menacing, intimidating and full of confidence - despite the fact he is sentenced to hang, he assures Holmes that he will be resurrected and will kill again prior to bringing about great change in the world. The target of Holmes and Watson is Lord Blackwood (played quite menacingly by Mark Strong), who has been murdering young women and is preparing to murder/sacrifice one in some apparantly satanic ritual at the start of the movie. Frankly, I was thankful for the flash forward which was step by step and in slow motion, because when the fight actually took place it was shot using those annoying close-in quick-cuts which made it very difficult to follow. Right from the opening moments we get a feel for the energy level of the film and insight into the way Sherlock thinks and acts - the screenwriters (three of them) and Guy Ritchie came up with a kind of flash forward method where we see him map out what he is going to do (in this case, disable a guard) and then we see him follow through.
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