Sherlock Holmes

Sigh. I know this makes me a bad American and all, but I don’t really enjoy watching things blow up.

I know. It’s practically a reason to be deported to Canada.

It’s lovely that this movie is doing so well and I must say that Robert Downey Jr looks might fine chained to a bed with a pillow over his naughty bits, but I was kinda bored by this flick.

And to boot, it ended with what’s basically the beginning of the next Sherlock Holmes movie. I’m sure it got greenlighted after this one did so well this weekend. The whole point is to get a series going.

Isn’t Sherlock Holmes a man of the mind? And what the hell happened to Guy Ritchie? I mean, his flicks have always had some violence, but this was obnoxious Hollywood, find an excuse to blow something up crap. Maybe this is his revenge on the US for Madonna. (they were married but aren’t any more and she’s apparently back to dating young Latino men again. But I digress…)

So, this is not a thinking man’s movie and didn’t have nearly enough nude Sherlock for me. However, I’m a snob so you may be perfectly delighted with this type of flick.

I did think that stylistically, the film looked really nice and there were some really great touches in the editing. Just not enough.

I give Sherlock Holmes 3 stars/out of 5.