Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
by Joy Anne Icayan
Sherlock Holmes is everything you would expect from a suspense action movie, and that is what's exactly is wrong with it. Sherlock Holmes, brilliant and eccentric detective get reduced to an action superhero ready to pounce on just about anyone, and Dr. Watson as the ever ready sidekick. While this can be amusing, the movie feels more like a decent attempt at fan fiction, rather than an accurate, or even respectable portrayal of the icon.
Even the relationship of Holmes and Watson falls flat, striving for a bromance angle rather than the conflicted connection between two conflicted grownup men. That Watson once referred to Holmes as "positively inhuman at times" that Holmes sheds irritation over Watson's inaccurate, and more emotional portrayals of his adventures, that Watson can only describe Holmes concern for him through his facial expressions and almost never in words, that the two still stick it out despite their professional differences, gets lost somehow in the numerous and senseless fistfights.
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Read the full Review at UnRatedMagazine.com
by Joy Anne Icayan
Sherlock Holmes is everything you would expect from a suspense action movie, and that is what's exactly is wrong with it. Sherlock Holmes, brilliant and eccentric detective get reduced to an action superhero ready to pounce on just about anyone, and Dr. Watson as the ever ready sidekick. While this can be amusing, the movie feels more like a decent attempt at fan fiction, rather than an accurate, or even respectable portrayal of the icon.
Even the relationship of Holmes and Watson falls flat, striving for a bromance angle rather than the conflicted connection between two conflicted grownup men. That Watson once referred to Holmes as "positively inhuman at times" that Holmes sheds irritation over Watson's inaccurate, and more emotional portrayals of his adventures, that Watson can only describe Holmes concern for him through his facial expressions and almost never in words, that the two still stick it out despite their professional differences, gets lost somehow in the numerous and senseless fistfights.
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Read the full Review at UnRatedMagazine.com
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