The film, set in London of 1891, opens with Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law) racing to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). Holmes and Watson stop the sacrifice just in time and neutralize Lord Blackwood, after which the police, led by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), arrive and arrest him. Within prison, Lord Blackwood triggers panic, even causing a prison warden to be struck down with a seizure. Holmes, on the other hand, has been bored silly in the three months between Blackwood’s capture and his impending execution.
Watson has met a girl named Mary (Kelly Reilly) whom he intends to wed, and will be moving out of his apartment. This upsets Holmes as he fears he will lose the close bond he built up with Watson. Meanwhile, Holmes gets re-acquainted with Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), the only person who has managed to fool him twice. She offers him a sum of money to pursue a case, and leaves his apartment. Holmes disguises himself as a vagrant and trails Adler to a coach, within which sits a man whose face is not seen but who has a wrist mounted pistol which he uses to threaten the disguised Holmes.
The day before his execution, Blackwood asks to meet with Holmes. Holmes notices that Blackwood has scrawled occult symbols and inscriptions on the walls of his prison cell, and Blackwood warns Holmes that death will not be an obstacle to him. He states that three more murders will occur, and there is nothing Holmes can do about it. Blackwood is subsequently hanged and Watson himself personally verifies that Blackwood has no pulse and is clinically dead. Three days after he is buried, the stones that sealed his tomb are found shattered, and a witness claims he saw Blackwood leave the tomb alive. Holmes and Watson are called to the scene to investigate. When the coffin is removed, instead of Blackwood’s corpse, they find the body of a red haired midget, the very man Irene Adler had asked him to find. With Blackwood apparently back from the dead, London is astir with rumors about his dark powers, and Holmes and Watson resume their hunt to track him down and uncover the mystery of his resurrection. During their search, they find a room filled with dead, hung pigs. The two discover that they have been followed by Ms. Adler, who was trapped by Blackwood, she is bound and cleave-gagged on a factory conveyor belt. Holmes braves the flames and blades to saves her, securing her trust. Watson follows Blackwood but is caught by a tripwire and sets off a massive explosion, in which he is badly wounded.
Holmes’ and Watson’s adventures lead them to uncover an occult-dabbling secret society known as the Temple of the Four Orders (similar in vein to secret societies such as the Order of the Eastern Star, the Freemasons, the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians), with Blackwood eventually leading it on a quest for world domination. Blackwood leaves many (apparently supernatural) murders in his wake, and manages to take control of the secret society. Blackwood uses the influence of the police to have the police hunt down Holmes and bring him to Parliament, where Lord Coward inadvertently gives Holmes the clues he needs to reveal Blackwood plans to launch a major attack on the British parliament. Holmes and Watson discover a machine designed to release a chemical gas, hidden in the sewers under parliament but Adler manages to disarm it. When his plan fails Blackwood flees and in a battle on the construction site of the Tower Bridge, Holmes reveals all of the scientific methods behind Blackwood’s seemingly supernatural resurrection, powers, and murders. Blackwood falls and gets tangled in some chains used for the construction; when they finally untangle, one gets caught around his neck and he is accidentially (and ironically) hanged. Above London, Holmes handcuffs himself to Ms. Adler until she explains her motives to become involved with the case. She explains that the mysterious caped man in the carriage is one Professor Moriarty, who had used the battle to covertly steal an important component of the machine. Adler warns Holmes that Moriarty is just as brilliant as he is, and infinitely more devious. Holmes leaves Adler, and returns to explain to Watson how Blackwood managed to fake his death. The film ends with Holmes learning of a new case involving Professor Moriarty. Trailer:
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Sherlock Holmes comments / review
Date: 2009-12-27 08:44:11
User: PostFilm
Robert Downey Jr. is a great actor able to bring his idiosyncratic sensibility to everything from Charlie Chaplin to a comic-book superhero.
But the thought of him playing Sherlock Holmes was enough to give even the biggest Downey fan pause. British, brilliant, all that? Could he pull it off?
Turns out there was no need to worry. Playing literature's greatest detective as a sort of self-loathing action hero, Downey has an absolute blast. And thanks to his performance in "Sherlock Holmes," so do we.
Mind you, those who are put off by a depiction of Holmes as the sort of fellow who indulges in underground bare-knuckle boxing (he thinks that through as much as he does anything else) will have much to be put off by. Although this may be closer to Arthur Conan Doyle's original depiction of Holmes, audiences used to Basil Rathbone-like portrayals will be jarred. This is a rock-and-roll Holmes without the attendant music. In director Guy Ritchie's telling, Holmes still is off-the-charts brilliant. He's just a butt-kicker to boot.
Dr. Watson (Jude Law) also knows his way around a fight. They're a version of a 19th-century dynamic duo, something that also may prove unsettling to fans of previous movies; Nigel Bruce, Watson to Rathbone's Holmes in such films as "The Hound of the Baskervilles," was more likely to take a punch than deliver one.
Oh, and the case isn't any great shakes, either, an occult-themed series of murders linked to the nefarious Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), who manages to bedevil London even after we see him hanged.
With all that, then, what does the film have to recommend it?
Downey. And Law, too. Their banter, their wit and their delivery are a delight.
Watson is engaged to Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly), who is both jealous of Holmes and rankled by his off-putting manner. He knows everything, it seems, except the proper time to shut up. Watson is torn. He's moving out of the flat he shares with Holmes and trying to wean himself off assisting Holmes as he solves cases. But it's hard to tear himself away.
Meanwhile, Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) shows up, an old flame of Holmes' who needs a favor. Naturally, he feels compelled to comply. Gives him something to do, after all. Holmes needs that. As we see, his mind is never idle, even when the rest of him is, and he tends to get himself into trouble.
But what's a Downey character without trouble? Getting out of jams on the strength of a smirk and a quip are his specialties, and if ever there was a place for that, it's here.
Ritchie brings his usual stylized approach to the film. Holmes thinks things through, visualizing a clue he picked up here or there, or where he will land a punch in a fight. Ritchie in turn visualizes it for us. It's not always successful - at times it drags the story to a halt - but when it works, it works well.
Strong is always good, and that's the case here as he fairly spits his dialogue, all black-hooded malevolence. McAdams is OK, but her role isn't much.
No matter. The fun here is in Downey's performance, both solo and in concert with Law (or Strong or Eddie Marsan as the hapless Inspector Lestrade, or whomever else Downey happens to be sharing the screen with).
And if Ritchie has set up the story for a sequel - and he has - well, there could be worst crimes committed against the cinema. It doesn't take a genius of Holmes' stature to figure that out.
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