Holmes has pieced together the puzzle that is the powder keg of Europe in 1891, and all the fuses lead back to the megalomaniac Moriarty. I intend to make the most of it.” That entails derailing the honeymoon. And botching the stag party and almost ruining the wedding won’t be enough of a sendoff. Holmes is about to lose Watson (Jude Law), his perfect foil and bantering partner, to matrimony. “They are dangerous at both ends, and crafty in the middle,” he quips, though he’s already landed his laugh with the look on his face. Check out the face Downey pulls when Holmes realizes that one leg of his cross-Europe pursuit of Moriarty will involve riding a horse. And since Ritchie burned through his best bad guy - the cunning, cutlery faced Mark Strong - in his first Holmes film, it’ll have to do.ĭowney is more Chaplinesque, more whimsical and more English in this sequel, a two-fisted howitzer-barreled blast that manages to be lighter, funnier and yet more violent than the first Downey-Ritchie film. But Hitchcock’s maxim - “Good villains make good thrillers” - holds true.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is still a romp, albeit an overlong one where the rompers romp at the point of a bayonet. doesn’t just dope-slap this shrimp and “crack on.” But as the evil genius is played by the unimposing Jared Harris (Mad Men, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), you can’t help but wonder why Robert Downey Jr. They parry, trade threats and play chess. Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows puts the infamous Professor M. LITTLE ROCK For much of the cinema’s history, the movies have had the good sense to keep Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty off camera, an unseen menace made all the more threatening by his absence.
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