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The New Sherlock Holmes Film

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Well quite. What next - they remake Death on the Nile featuring Hercule Poirot armed with a chaingun?

 

Holmes was an expert boxer, a proficient martial-arts fighter and fencer and also a drug addict who happended to get into a quite a few scrapes.

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yeah it's slightly encouraging, however he also says seek out a review by Kim Newman on it. Being a holmes nerd i'll still go see it.

 

Kermode doesn't seem well versed at all in Holmes and is judging it simply as a piece of throwaway entertainment.

 

I dunno, i don't want Holmes to be throwaway, inspite of his pulp origins he's never been disposable.

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It's been getting very good reviews so i went with pretty high expections.

 

Have to say i really enjoyed it, very good performances from Downey Jr and even Jude Law, who i'm not the biggest fan of normally. Some ace fist fights and action scenes also. As a downside i'd say at 2 hours 15 minutes it's probably a bit too long, and the female roles are very underwritten like in all Guy Richie films.

 

Overall though i'd highly recommend it, even if you normally hate Richie's films.

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Holmes was an expert boxer, a proficient martial-arts fighter and fencer and also a drug addict who happended to get into a quite a few scrapes.

 

Fucking hell. Now the film makes more sense and I was enjoying thinking how shit hollywood was for making it like they did.

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