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- 2009
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 8 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 8 m
Summary Sherlock Holmes has made his reputation finding the truth at the heart of the most complex mysteries. With the aid of Dr. John Watson, his trusted ally, the renowned "consulting detective" is unequaled in his pursuit of criminals of every stripe, whether relying on his singular powers of observation, his remarkable deductive skills, or t...
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
- 2009
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 8 m
- 2009
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 8 m
Sherlock Holmes
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7.7
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Summary Sherlock Holmes has made his reputation finding the truth at the heart of the most complex mysteries. With the aid of Dr. John Watson, his trusted ally, the renowned "consulting detective" is unequaled in his pursuit of criminals of every stripe, whether relying on his singular powers of observation, his remarkable deductive skills, or t...
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
38% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
12% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
38% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
12% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Downey has a winning take on Holmes: He's always on.
There are worse things than loutish, laddish cool, and as a series of poses and stunts, Sherlock Holmes is intermittently diverting.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 552 User Ratings
7.7
81% Positive
449 Ratings
449 Ratings
16% Mixed
91 Ratings
91 Ratings
2% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 552 User Ratings
7.7
81% Positive
449 Ratings
449 Ratings
16% Mixed
91 Ratings
91 Ratings
2% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
I really liked this movie. Robert Downey Jr. is a cool sherlock, totally! So! 10/10
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Here's hoping that younger members of the audience will seek out Conan Doyle's original stories to further explore Holmes' official amanuensis, Dr. John Watson, whose brilliant case studies regarding his friend, roommate, and fellow rationalist are the stuff dreams are made of.
By now we’ve seen so many good, bad, and indifferent Sherlocks that it’s almost a relief to get something different, however wrongheaded. And there’s no such thing as too much Downey.
Despite some arresting visual flourishes and Downey’s inherent likeability, it’s nearly incoherent both as cinema and as story. No, this isn’t your grandfather’s or your father’s Sherlock Holmes, but if theirs featured Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett in the lead, it was better by miles.
This is the ultimate sin of the film, generically helmed by lad-auteur Guy Ritchie: Logic seems to be thrown out the window in order to make room for clashes on a partially completed Tower Bridge. It’s way too elementary.
The very idea of handing him over to professional lad Guy Ritchie (who directed Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), to be played as a punch-throwing quipster by Robert Downey Jr., is so profoundly stupid one can only step back in dismay.
**** You!!!!!!!!!!!! Peter Travers...........................................................................................................................................
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The whole Lord Blackwood thing was so annoying but Holmes and Watson, they are the way. Also, I got goosebumps when Mary said "Whatever it takes"
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Absolutely terribly put together. I cant see how this is getting any good reviews at all. There is just too much wrong with it. The plots are weak. The story telling has holes and the pace is awkward at best. The fight scenes are laughable, not to mention pathetic for a period piece and clashes with everything Sherlock Holmes of books was about.
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Little fidelity to the orignal character, very little homework on the history and the period the story took place. This movie is a commercial enterprise to lure bored youngster or people with low reading skills so that they can sit and turn the brain off as usual sitting on the moive theater seat eating some popcorn. Jude Law cannot make a Watson as he does not look at all like a rugby player. Robert Downety Junior would actually make a good Moriarty and Mark Strong should have been the Sherlock Holmes. They have good the cast inverted.
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Production Company
Warner Bros.,
Village Roadshow Pictures,
Silver Pictures,
Wigram Productions,
Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Dritte,
Lin Pictures
Release Date Dec 25, 2009
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Nothing Escapes Him
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 8 Nominations
