Quickie Review: Sherlock Holmes ( Robert Downey, Jr. ) finally meets his match in the evil-minded genius, Professor Moriarty ( Jared Harris ), who is Hell-bent on starting a world war so that he can sell to both sides of the conflict.
The audience liked this movie, but it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.
I liked this movie, too. It's definitely better than the first one. And Jared Harris played his bad-guy role so convincingly that he might be up for an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Here are the things that I found wrong in this movie: Formaldehyde is a very dangerous neuro-toxin--it can "pickle" the brain, something Holmes would not want to happen to his brain ( one might rightfully assume ). The horses should have been spooked by the horseless carriage puttering around town. When Holmes disarmed the Cossack assassin, the bad guy just kept his right arm extended instead of reflexively pulling it back! Mary Watson ( Kelly Reilly ) pretended to be morally shocked at the sight of the naked man but ... she read the telegram facing him and with her eyes strategically looking down in that direction! Those two men sitting around didn't notice it when the iron grate was flung wide open. Sure, he was a marksman but bear in mind that he was just wounded, he was full of Adrenaline, he had been running all that time, and his heart was pumping hard and fast--there was no way that he could have calmed his body down very quickly to make that long-distance kill-shot without first propping his rifle on the ground or on a rock or a tree stump/fallen branch. When they were at Mycroft Holmes' ( Stephen Fry ) place, the Gypsy guy was not in the room with them when he should have been since he was part of Sherlock's group. No surgeon in the late 1800s used Cortisone for plastic surgery; so, the facial scar should not have been so smooth. The would-be assassin was disguised as a foreign diplomat--here's my logical deduction: The would-be assassin might look the part and might also act the part but he was foreign-born and would be expected to speak the diplomat's language with a foreign accent ( "Elementary, my dear Watson. Elementary ...." )
Note: 'Sorry for this quickie review. I'm caught-up in the Holiday Rush writing financial proposals to 341 businesses; and I'm still prospecting for more! And I will be kept busy with my business leads 'til the end of January, 2012.
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