12/23/2023 0 Comments 4k review sherlockIt has much of the same flair, much of the same humor, and even though it stumbles a bit with it’s main villain, is still a good fun romp in my opinion. If you enjoyed the first Sherlock Holmes flick from Guy Ritchie, then you should enjoy this one as well. A movie that was just 2 years later than the original, and tried to play off the cliffhanger of the 1st movie, only to sort of stumble and fail at revealing the most important villain in all of Sherlock Holmes history. It’s hard to live up to a movie that was a box office smash hit, and such was the case with A Game of Shadows. Whether that will actually happen due to the giant upset of the Covid-19 pandemic making mince meat of the Hollywood schedule or not is up to debate, but that still is out there for fans. They’re quirky, a bit outlandish, but tons of high octane fun, and I was actually pleasantly surprised to find that they’re doing preliminary work on a THIRD film set to be released next year. All jokes aside, I actually have a soft spot for the Guy Ritchie films. I mean, we have characters diving out of 5 story windows, bullet time fights that get more and more outlandish, and witty jokes that fall more in line with Marvel movies than they do with a posh British detective. The comparison is kind of apt, even though it was originally meant as a joke, being that the RDJ Sherlock Holmes films tend to be much more fantastical and superheroish in nature. As I joked 8 years ago when I reviewed the Blu-ray, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is another in a long list of superhero films being lain out with the return of Robert Downey Jr.
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