011 Saturday Matinee

 Well it has been a while since I did one of these but I thought I would start off with my most recent trip to the cinema which was to see Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. This is the second in the series of Sherlock Holmes movies which stars Robert Downie Jr as the enigmatic and very eccentric Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by Jude Law at the put upone Dr John Watson. Whilst the hype had this movie dubbed as better than the first, I went into the cinema a little sceptical that this would be the case, you see I loved the first film it was the film that made me ever so slightly fall in love with Robert Downey Jr and his querky portrail of Sherlock. In that respect this film did not fail, Mr Downey was true to form with great support given by Jude Law.

 

Professor Moriarty played by Jared Harriswas the ever polite overly intelligent vilan, a great job with in my a opinion a very boring script and character development. He should be a super villan to end all villans intelligent, suave with an air of mystery but I just didn't get that in this film.

My favourite part of the first film was setting of the film in victorian London with all the hustle and bustle in the back ground and I am afraid that is what was a bit lacking in this, the more remote settings lacked the energy given to the first film. What was still true to form were the great victorian costumes especially those worn by Rachel McAdam's character, Irene Adler, I love that hat and the dramatic makeup.

 

By far the stand out best part of this film was the small role played by Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's slightly more put together brother who still lacked some of the social graces for normal society expectation. The comic timing in the delivery of Mycrofts lines was excellent.

  

 

All in all this was an entertaining movie and although it wasn't as good as the first one I still felt it was worth my cinema ticket and shouldn't be relegated to the "Oh well I will watch it when it comes out on DVD" pile. The costumes, action and cinematography were great, well worth a view on the big screen.