I went into this movie with absolutely no intentions of liking it. Expecting to hate it actually. I do like Robert Downey Jr. and I did enjoy Iron Man (he is playing essentially the same character here!? - just sans the armour overalls) but to think I could sit there for more than two hours and enjoy a Guy "Snatch" Ritchie movie??? A Guy "Lock, Stock & Two Freakin' Smoking Barrels" Ritchie movie????? A Guy "RocknRolla" Ritchie movie?????? A Guy "Swept Away" Ritchie movie??????? Just ain't happenin' brothah.
But guess what? I sat there for more than two hours and enjoyed a Guy Ritchie movie. A Guy "Sherlock Holmes" Ritchie movie!!!!! True, the arbitrary auteur's annoying filmmaking style is still quite intact but with the help of Tony Stark gone back in time...er, I mean with the help of Robert Downey Jr. (and Jude Law), Ritchie's movie works - for the most part. It still had the most mundane of villians and relied too heavily on CGI, but hey, just the fact that I sat there for more than two hours and enjoyed a Guy Ritchie movie should be enough of a victory. Anyway, my review is over at The Vigilant Monkey (one of my three regular haunts outside of my own site).
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