Stylized chaos at the expense of a developed story
PostedDecember 26, 2009
HughLuvah
from Hammond, LA
A Guy Ritchie fan realizes coming into one of his films that chaos is to be expected, However, the methods that earned him his scruples worked against him in Sherlock Holmes. When Holmes' mind is so deductive that he measures every movement in a fight in the millisecond before it happens, one would appreciate the director taking the same care with the plot and character development. There was not enough storyline for Downey and McAdams' characters to give the audience a perception of something being "on the line," and the bromance between Law and Downey took away from where the focus should have lied--in the inner workings of a genius' mind.