Sunday, September 26, 2010
NO SHIT SHERLOCK
I just finished watching Guy Ritchie's
It was great fun.
Not your father's Sherlock. It is actually old wine in new bottles.
The newest bottle is Robert Downey who, in his charming way, deconstructs Doyle'e detective and makes him his own.
I did not know that this was based on a comic book story. I thought perhaps Ritchie figured this out for himself. But it works. Whoever figured on the Holmes remake.
Jude Law is droll as Watson and the rumors of homoerotic threads between the leads is there to see if you want it to be there. It is at least a "bromance". The two work together wonderfully well. Watson is taken out of the straight man role and placed more as a good partner.
There are villains and women and various chicaneries but the main show is the deductive reasoning and the clever use of slo-mo to let us see things like Sherlock's martial art. Normally this stuff happens too fast to really get. This way is better.
The review at the link is from The Tech (Thee-long e-Tech), MIT's student newspaper. They liked the science and engineering and so did I.
There is a lot of tech in here but the crucial clues are a little extreme for us to believe as they rely on a kind of bribery that is very hard to pull off. Nevertheless. These things should not deter us from having a good time.
And we are teased to enjoy the prospect of a sequel, This would be against my rules to see but given the enjoyment of this one might tempt me in the exception. Good luck to them. Franchises usually suck.
I would not mind seeing it again. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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