Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

a film by Guy Ritchie

Sequels are rarely better than originals, and A Game of Shadows is not an exception.

Debit

1. Holmes does not do much “deducing”
2. An embarrassingly long list of anachronisms
3. Unimpressive Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)
4. Schubert

Credit

1. If in the first movie the slow-motion fight scenes were explaining exactly what is going to happen, here the “reality” goes not as expected — I quite like that
2. Sherlock’s disguises are getting even more hilarious
3. Stephen Fry as Mycroft “the other” Holmes (“You mean there’s two of you?”) is simply brilliant
4. Gypsy music!

All in all, it still makes a damn good viewing. Good night.