A British View.The second film I’ve seen where Robert Downey Jr. attempts* to make a silencer for his gun; Sherlock Holmes was quite enjoyable.
Just a quick post, but the film was cool, my friend who saw it with me complained that he thought it would include more action. My issue wasn’t that, the action was there it just seemed a little TOO choreographed. I liked the whole “Deductive-Reasoning-Sense” fight scenes a lot, it was done in an unusual way which surprised me but wasn’t too over the top “physic”-ish. But all the explosions and “running away from big guy” scenes were a bit too… I dunno… “Wow, that coincidence sure saved my life; it’s NOT AT ALL odd that a guy who relies so much on logic then puts his entire life on the line continuously to be narrowly saved by some chance occurrence.” I’m going to “try” and not use to many “quotation marks” from here on out.
I’m going to let that slide, the storyline was OK for a Guy Ritchie film and I did enjoy it; I was a bit annoyed that I worked everything out before Sherlock Holmes did but my knowledge of the books and predisposition to explaining “Magic” helped me out a bit there. I would give examples of this but I don’t want to ruin the film, you should watch it yourself.
(*He failed in both films.)
The other film was A Scanner Darkly, which you should DEFINITELY watch. It’s just a brilliant example of how animation can be innovative but shouldn’t take from the acting, mixed with a really cool score, a story which makes you think, characters which are interesting and a twist you didn’t see coming.
