<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=283" rel="attachment wp-att-283"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-283" title="sherlockholmes(dec11)" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sherlockholmesdec11-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a>We saw the first of the Robert Downey JR and Jude Law partnership films in 2009 and it was a really good swashbuckling adventure movie so it was an obvious film for us to go and see. We had a spare Monday evening (Jane wasn't working) and surprisingly for the week before Christmas we weren't under huge pressure so along we went.

After sitting through the usual 25 minutes of adverts and trailers Jane was nodding off but not for long. The film kicked off in a loud, all action sequence and she was awake. Of course with any drama from the Sherlock Holmes genre it isn't going to be straightforward, if it was you wouldn't need Sherlock Holmes to solve it. This had plenty of smoke and mirrors. There were some parts of the film that left us wondering why Sherlock had done this or how did he come to that conclusion but maybe that was just a lack of concentration on our part. There was an overall theme to the film with Moriarty attempting to start a European war whereby he would financially benefit from the munition factories that he had acquired and there are many links to the truth behind the start of the first world war.

The scenes where Holmes mentally runs through what will happen next in slow motion and then considers all the possible outcomes are fascinating and the slow motion action sequences with heavy gunfire are superb.

So despite a strong moment by moment story line the whole film is action packed and really enjoyable. Recommended ****

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