Sherlock Holmes - 4.0

Man, what a dud this movie was --- and an unnecessary dud at that. All of the pieces were there for it to be awesome:

• The characters were good. It is freakin' Sherlock Holmes after all.  Not exactly rocket science there.
  
• The casting, for the leads at least, was perfect, and their acting was solid.
  
• The sets from early industrial London looked pretty sweet as well.

So, you tack on a good villain, a few good action scenes and bada-bing, you've got a hit, right? Wrong.

So, what went wrong? Well, the script just plain sucked. The pacing was terrible, the love interests were poorly developed and basically completely unnecessary. The villains were uniformly ho-hum. Also the best two action scenes, the rather awesome sequences where Holmes mentally previews how he is going incapacitate the guys he is fighting, took place in the first 30 minutes which made the following hour and a half of dullness even harder to bare. Oh, and them there was the worm-infested cherry on top: the two minute there-is-no-way-in-hell-you-could've-known-this-at-the-time-but-this-is-how-he-did-it wrap up at the end of the movie which just royally pissed me off.

So, yeah, my advice, save yourself 2 hours and skip the movie. Just watch this instead:


Or even better yet, watch a fight scene from Ritchie's good movie.