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The good news is, Dr. Watson does get married. The bad news is, Sherlock Holmes throws his bride off a moving train. Actually, there's even worse news than that--but all will be explained in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the sequel to Guy Ritchie's 2009 hit. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return to their roles as Holmes and Watson, as the duo take on the world's greatest criminal mind, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), a man whose latest scheme has global implications. Sherlockians who prefer their consulting detective to remain in a traditional mode had best look the other way, for the sequel continues Ritchie's vision of Holmes as a hard-punching action hero hurtling through a barrage of special effects sequences. If you can go with that, A Game of Shadows actually improves on the first film: the story makes a little more sense (or possibly the whole thing moves so smoothly you don't notice the illogic), Harris is a delicious villain, and new cast members Noomi Rapace (from the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series) and Stephen Fry (playing Sherlock's brother Mycroft, who calls his sibling "Sherlie") add appeal. It's all frivolous and superficial, but the film's playful attitude and breathless forward motion are skillfully managed--and the final note adds just the right punctuation. --Robert Horton
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Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his friend and colleague, Dr. Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large--Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris)--and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
Around the globe, headlines break the news; a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon; a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose; bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna; the death of an American steel magnate... No-one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events--no-one, that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes, who has discerned a deliberate web of death and destruction. At its center sits a singularly sinister spider--Moriarty.
Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany and finally Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead, and moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan. If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but alter the course of history.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There is a lot that might be said about Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, I'll try to keep it to a minimum. We are served everything we loved from the first movie with a lot more bolted on besides. There is a lot of humour and excellent touches that demonstrate Shadows was made by people who know what they're doing and having a lot of fun doing it. It is superbly stylised with enigmatic acting, if woefully wasting the very talented female leads. It takes the plot beyond Sherlock's usual remit, galloping across Europe with assassinations, hand to hand combat and explosions usually reserved for Bond or Bourne. Come the end the pace has been so fast you might feel a little dizzy with several quite puzzling but pertinent questions on the tip of your tongue, which matter little because we have been so wonderfully entertained.
65 of 78 people found the following review helpful
By Rob Payne
Format:Blu-ray
In 2009s Sherlock Holmes, director Guy Richie took Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian sleuth and completely re-invented him as an action hero for a modern audience, shocking purists the world over. There were fist fights, endless banter with his faithful compatriot Dr. Watson and silly disguises galore. I liked it immediately. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows goes one step further, taking the same formula from the first film and cranking up the volume, pace and budget.
This is certainly not the Holmes we know from Conan Doyle's classic stories. There are similarities of course; his brilliant mind, his keen skills of observation, his arrogance and his experimentation with various substances that Conan Doyle's books allude to. But Conan Doyle's Holmes would never have been pursued by soldiers through a German forest while being shelled with mortar fire. I for one am glad for this `re-imagining'. We've seen plenty of Sherlock Holmes TV adaptations in the past (the best being the BBC's current adaptation, the excellent `Sherlock'), but this is a very different animal, an actioner with a huge sense of fun and adventure, not intended to be true to Conan Doyle's books in any way. The two films together represent what is surely by far and away the best spell in Richie's career as a film director.
The plot, some elements of which are drawn (so very loosely) from `The Final Problem', is almost inconsequential to the enjoyment of the film, but involves a scheme by Holmes' arch nemesis Professor Moriarty to start a war in Europe with a campaign of murders and bombings in France and Germany, his motive being profit from his investment in a huge factory developing new artillery and munitions.... Read more ›
This is certainly not the Holmes we know from Conan Doyle's classic stories. There are similarities of course; his brilliant mind, his keen skills of observation, his arrogance and his experimentation with various substances that Conan Doyle's books allude to. But Conan Doyle's Holmes would never have been pursued by soldiers through a German forest while being shelled with mortar fire. I for one am glad for this `re-imagining'. We've seen plenty of Sherlock Holmes TV adaptations in the past (the best being the BBC's current adaptation, the excellent `Sherlock'), but this is a very different animal, an actioner with a huge sense of fun and adventure, not intended to be true to Conan Doyle's books in any way. The two films together represent what is surely by far and away the best spell in Richie's career as a film director.
The plot, some elements of which are drawn (so very loosely) from `The Final Problem', is almost inconsequential to the enjoyment of the film, but involves a scheme by Holmes' arch nemesis Professor Moriarty to start a war in Europe with a campaign of murders and bombings in France and Germany, his motive being profit from his investment in a huge factory developing new artillery and munitions.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Isobel
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
So bad!! did same jokes as first and soooo not worth its money. I just think they ran out of ideas and wanted quick cash.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is not the Sherlock Holmes we were expecting. I did enjoy it very much. But my wife did not as it looked too much like the modern action films. She was expecting the Sherlock holmes we grew up with. I thought that is what made it good but she did not agree.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By K. Stanton
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The first film, simply called Sherlock Holmes, was a super film in all regards, writing, acting, directing and story line. I first saw this eagerly awaited second film, A Game of Shadows, film in the cinema and was greatly disappointed. However, when the price of the DVD was sufficiently low I decided to give it another chance. I have to report that my initial view was correct. This is a badly written, and lacking in any involvement. Lots of bangs but little else. The principal two actors seemed as though they just could not be bothered. One wonders if they were co-erced by contract into doing a remake. There was no rapport between them and which is essential in this kind of film where a lot of the laughs depend on the interaction between the actors. The writing was little less than appalling: the script could have been written on the back of of a postage stamp.
As for the naked scene with Stephen Fry the less said the better. It was a complete irrelevance to the film. Why Mr Ritchie was it included? It added nothing to the story line and was not even funny.
I struggle to give this two stars.
As for the naked scene with Stephen Fry the less said the better. It was a complete irrelevance to the film. Why Mr Ritchie was it included? It added nothing to the story line and was not even funny.
I struggle to give this two stars.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows - Another entertaining romp from Downey and Ritchie
17 Aug 2012
Format:DVD
Over the years the character of Sherlock Holmes has been translated onto screen in a variety of ways - true to Conan Doyle's original (Jeremy Brett), as a comic figure (Michael Caine), as a propaganda instrument (Basil Rathbone) and by a host of others in ways too numerous to mention here. But of all of them, this has to be the most fun.
Guy Ritchie's vision of the Holmes legend manages to get a few names, the odd line and occasional detail from the books, but most of the character of Holmes has been reinvented into Robert Downey Jr's very knowing hero. Watson is transformed into much more of a man of action in one of Jude Law's better performances, and it is good to see the Doctor portrayed as a dependable intelligent man capable of his own thought and action, rather than the blind bumbling fool he is often seen as. There is also a fun cameo for Stephen Fry as Mycroft (the interplay between Holmes and Mycroft seems to give a wink to the execrable Peter Cook/Dudley Moore spoof, if Ritchie watched that film as part of his research then I tip my hat to him for his diligence and willingness to suffer for his art!). Ritchie's directorial vision of a Victorian London just starting to enter the modern age, especially with the pictures of the construction of great monuments and buildings we all take for granted today, is definitely refreshing.
With an almost steam punk atmosphere to his vision of Europe, Ritchie weaves a tale around Holmes' struggle against the machinations of a certain Prof. Moriarty, of infamous memory. Moriarty, played with a gleeful evilness by Jared Harris is an opponent worthy of Holmes, and the final face off between the two is very well realised.... Read more ›
Guy Ritchie's vision of the Holmes legend manages to get a few names, the odd line and occasional detail from the books, but most of the character of Holmes has been reinvented into Robert Downey Jr's very knowing hero. Watson is transformed into much more of a man of action in one of Jude Law's better performances, and it is good to see the Doctor portrayed as a dependable intelligent man capable of his own thought and action, rather than the blind bumbling fool he is often seen as. There is also a fun cameo for Stephen Fry as Mycroft (the interplay between Holmes and Mycroft seems to give a wink to the execrable Peter Cook/Dudley Moore spoof, if Ritchie watched that film as part of his research then I tip my hat to him for his diligence and willingness to suffer for his art!). Ritchie's directorial vision of a Victorian London just starting to enter the modern age, especially with the pictures of the construction of great monuments and buildings we all take for granted today, is definitely refreshing.
With an almost steam punk atmosphere to his vision of Europe, Ritchie weaves a tale around Holmes' struggle against the machinations of a certain Prof. Moriarty, of infamous memory. Moriarty, played with a gleeful evilness by Jared Harris is an opponent worthy of Holmes, and the final face off between the two is very well realised.... Read more ›
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Brilliant DVD
Got this for gift, really enjoyed the film. Got follow up to the first film. I would thoroughly recommend this film.
Published 5 days ago by sarah wilson
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Elementary my dear watson.
Excellent in pretty much every way. Actors have been well chosen, the writers have the characters down to a key and the direction is brilliant.
Published 5 days ago by Miss H Burns
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A Game of Shadows
This is the second film in the series, normally it is not as good as the first, but its great. It's a shame the director didn't put in how they made the film scenery etc, its'... Read more
Published 8 days ago by s,p.ellis
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Do not waist your time and money on this sequel, buy and enjoy the first one but not this rubbish.
Published 13 days ago by rb130599
4.0 out of 5 stars
good film
not as good as the first one, but it is great and i really love the on screen chemistry between the characters.
Published 21 days ago by Wilson
4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the first outing...
Saw this at the cinema, great slo-mo scenes, funny and fast paced. Good costumes and scenery, plays well on DVD.
Published 1 month ago by Doug Griffiths
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Great.
Brilliant film, with an ending that you can figure out if you follow it along carefully enough. Robert Downey Jr plays the role perfectly yet again.
Published 1 month ago by Reubin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Robert Downey Jnr..What more can I say
As fast moving as the 1st one.
Saw this in the cinema and couldn't wait to get it on DVD...Terrific!!
As fast moving as the 1st one.
Saw this in the cinema and couldn't wait to get it on DVD...Terrific!!
Published 1 month ago by April68
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing!
Robert Downy Jnr continues to bring his character to life in a masterful portrayal of the great detective, with some great one liners and action sequences and plot twists. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Helen Morgan
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A Good Story
This bears little relation to A. Conan Doyle's stories, but it is a good yarn and very entertaining, its quite comical the way they try to invent modern gadgets using... Read more
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