Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows: The 2nd Guy Ritchie-helmed film based on Arthur Conan Doyle‘s venerable property, and all the familiar faces are here again, including Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes, Jude Law as Watson, and Rachel McAdams (briefly) as Irene Adler, with Holmes facing off against his nemesis, the anti-Holmes Professor James Moriarty (played extremely well by Jared Harris), who wishes to start a war that will consume Europe. Noomi Rapace and Stephen Fry are in support here. This outing definitely veers towards the “more is more!” school of filmmaking, so we get more slow-mo fights and more gimmicky camera-work padding out the length of the film which is already overlong. In addition, it is decidedly schizophrenic, with both Downey and the film swerving from mischievous humor to pitch-black violence. One minute, Holmes is playing practical jokes on Watson, the next he’s dark and brooding. Not to mention that the convoluted wrap-up at the end feels more overwrought than seamless. This film, as with its predecessor, is missing something to put it over the top from being an okay-to-good movie to being great. It’s a very watchable flick, just not a completely satisfying one. Woodchuck sez, “Worth a look.”
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