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OK.
Imagine London as if it weer Paint YOur wagon (right down to horse ru=iding styles) with Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid in the starring roles.
Make the film an unannounced Ripper alert with a whole layer of Masons and pseudo-supernatural crap on top.
Use the jump edit, I'll look at something and know what happened there some time previously camerawork used on psych-detective shows and a soundtrack that has wandered in from another film (if you are unlucky enough to see it, you'll hear it!).
The CGI city looks less real than any 1940s film with the same seedy sets.
This is a film of truly horrendous emptiness.
It is not good.
It is not a romp.
It is not even unintentionally funny.
It is a total stinker.
Avoid like the plague even on free to air TV.
You have been warned.
Follow Ups:
Guy Ritchie. With Lock Stock, Snatch, and Rocknrolla, he has built up a good reputation in my own eyes, although I know he made some garbage with Madonna that I skipped.
At any rate, reviews are quite mixed, but in the end, I think it'll be worth the investment of a couple of hours to see it for myself.
I just rewatched Snatch and it is complex enough to hold up to repeated viewings.
...it's closer to Batman and Robin than Sherlock Holmes.
Ritchie's in-your-face action, chase, fights and explosions.
Downey and Law are the only saving graces.
I did a double take when near the end, the heroine, running away from the villain in the sewers beneath the parliament building, emerged two seconds later on top of Tower Bridge. How'd that happen? They jumped from a sewer to the top of a bridge maybe five miles away in the blink of an eye. Anyone who knows London probably laughed out loud, but that's Hollywood.
the preview showing Holmes and Watson ducking under the flying cgi huge mass going by them. Sure, make H & W into modern day buddy action heroes. The public will eat that up. Not for me.
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it is such an excellent series of books to butcher like they did (I can tell just by the commercials)
thanks
Phil
I always loved the books and heard a radio review where they talked about making the Holmes character more physical as he was in the books.
I thought it was worth a punt on a hot summer afternoon.
I actually squirmed through an hour and walked out as they felt the need to explain the inexplicable at Baker Street towards the end.
I have no idea how much I missed, nor do I care.
Having Lastrade(?) pretend to be a conspirator and have no one notice that he wasn't when all the rest seemed to lords, after having one lord suggest he had hushed up his illegitimate son whilst curiously making him (more unexplained stuff) a lord in his own right was too dumb to bother with.
d
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How did you ever avoid it? :-)
-Wendell
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