Sherlock Holmes (2009 version)

[BrooklynKnight]

I liked this movie but it wasn't by any means "edge of your seat awesome". I absolutly love the setting and environment the characters are in. I think that the thing this movie lacked most was more action. I can't help but feel that there is a better cut of this movie on a studio hard drive somewhere. I really enjoyed where in the relationship we enter their world. We're not given an origin story but instead hit the ground running with the characters already established in history and mythos. I also enjoyed how this movie laid the path for a sequal without being too clumsy. But again, I just felt back by the slow pace and feel what this movie really needed was more action and more mystery and we'd have had an awesome movie.

It's also very possible that after seeing Robert Downy Jr in Iron Man that we're maybe spoiled or somehow expect something really awesome out of him. The potential was there but it just kinda missed, but only just.

While this isint a movie I'd say you MUST SEE, I will say that it IS a movie you SHOULD see on the big screen if you're gonna see it, if only for the awesome setting and enviroment. Then again if you've got 62" and blu-ray you might be fine.

 

[Jack7]

I think I'll wait to see if they make a comic book of the movie.

 

[Fast Learner]

I thought it was great fun, an 8 out of 10. The action was enjoyable, the personalities of the two leads were a hoot, the atmosphere was fantastic, and I quite liked the plot. Not sure what everyone was expecting, but I felt it totally lived up to its billing as an action-packed often-funny adventure in Victorian London with a generous sprinkle of traditional Holmes-ness. My gf and I both enjoyed it and happily recommend it as a fun film to friends.