Sherlock Holmes Movie Review – 3 Out Of 10

Rating: 3 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys
Sherlock Holmes is the latest installment of supernatural/Freemason movies that plague the big screen. This time Holmes has a cyberpunk atmosphere that includes chemical weapons. Downey Jr. plays the ingenious but neurotic protagonist, who can be summed up as a cross between Captain Jack Sparrow (feminine, mysterious, and clever) and Tony Stark from Iron Man (the play boy ubermensch). Jude Law is utterly boring (except for the knife in his walking stick). The best scenes are those made of CGI sequences and owe nothing to the acting. Particularly ridiculous and repetitive are Holmes’ thoughts about how he will disarm his opponents in a stairwell and the utterly random and stupid cage-fighting scene. After thinking it all through and seeing the attack it is essentially replayed in fast motion for the audience. This movie belongs in the same category as Transformers and Harry Potter: movies that entertain groupies. It is hard to think about how many Sherlock Holmes novel groupies made it past the early twentieth century.

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