Unexpectedly delivering more action than logic, director Guy Ritchie has given Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters such a transformation that you wonder if the author himself would recognize his creation. Unraveling a curiously convoluted plot involving metaphysical forces and technology (that you’d be hard pressed to purchase at a Victorian-era Radio Shack), the boy from Baker Street discovers all of England-if not the entire globe-is hanging on his ability to decipher the clues. He’s also not so love struck by a fetching acquaintance (Rachel McAdams) to overlook the possibility of her being a pawn within Blackwood’s plan. Holmes takes this rather supernatural statement seriously, and the game is afoot. During Holmes’ short visit, Blackwood assures the sleuths that after his visit to the gallows, England will be threatened even more so by his wrath. So much so they have had to evacuate the other prisoners that allege he has taken control of their minds and caused a guard to go into medical distress. Yet, even behind bars Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) is managing to wreck havoc. The great detective’s presence is requested by a strange bloke who’s imprisoned on death row by London’s finest for the multiple murders of various women.
Watson (Jude Law), who is more ninja than physician. Revealing fighting abilities that would leave even Bond a little shaken and stirred, Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) presents himself in this telling as much more of an action hero. Now, with a Hollywood makeover, he is also one of the scrappiest. Good ‘ol Sherlock Holmes has enjoyed a long existence as one of the most intelligent detectives who ever lived.
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