Their very first scene together is a back-and-forth of threats, observations, wit, insults, and more. The dialogue between Holmes and Moriarty is simply awesome. He goes as far as to threaten the life of Watson in order to stop Holmes from interfering with his plans. The star of Mad Men delivers as Holmes’ intellectual, yet far more devious, equal. The real star of the show for me is Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty. The introduction of multiple characters from Doyle’s original scripts is executed well Sherlock’s brother Mycroft is rather funny, and Colonel Sebastian Moran makes an excellent cameo as Moriarty’s right-hand man. is the same old Sherlock Holmes we know and love from the first film, and Jude Law delivers as Watson, who is literally torn from his wife to deal with Holmes’s enigmatic plans. Crude pacing overshadows what could have been so much more, and the one slow motion scene where the group is fleeing from a barrage of artillery is little more than a gimmick, and really should have been cut to add more time for the characters, who, by contrast, are what really make this movie shine. The story suffers from lack of explanation, and rather bland characters such as the gypsy woman that the two befriend outside of Paris. The two friend’s adventures drag them across Britain, France, Germany, and Switzerland in an attempt to uncover Moriarty’s plots. Holmes knows that Watson would leave him to go start a family if the star detective didn’t keep incidentally interfering and bringing Watson back into his struggle against Moriarty. Holmes is also bugged by Watson’s impending marriage to his lover, Mary. It is overshadowed instead by the exploits of Holmes as he attempts to track the efforts of Moriarty, who has secretly been controlling both sides and hopes to profit immensely from the eruption of war. You catch snippets of an overarching dilemma that places France and Germany at each other’s throats and a World War just waiting to explode, but I felt like that part of the story didn’t get the attention it deserved. Does the next film in the series live up to its predecessor? Well, yes and no. Despite my worries that Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows might have suffered from what I call sequel-itis, where the product worsens in quality over time, I still had high hopes for the new conflict between Holmes and one of literature’s most famous villains, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris Mad Men, Fringe). John Watson), I’ve been waiting for a sequel to this story. as the unforgettable Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as his longtime friend Dr. Ever since the conclusion of the 2009 adaption of Sir Arthur Conon Doyle’s famous detective hit the big screen (starring Robert Downey Jr.
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