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Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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byStephan Delbos, The Prague Post

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Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

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Two years ago, the notion of making Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ingenious, opium-smoking detective into a modern-day action hero franchise was anything but elementary.

But director Guy Ritchie has pushed (some would say co-opted) the novels into new territory, namely one of gritty steam-punk realism, stop-frame kung-fu action and heavy artillery. This, the second film in the franchise, which is (extremely) loosely based on the Holmes novel The Final Problem, propels Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his trusty sidekick Watson (Jude Law) to the highest echelon of 21st century … er, that is, 19th-century heroes who bear little to no resemblance to Doyle's creations but who make a gripping duo in a film that is energetic, compelling and hilarious.

The year is 1891, and a slew of bombings are sweeping Europe, pushing the Continent to the brink of war. Most presume fringe anarchist groups are responsible for these acts of violence, but Holmes, of course, has a different theory.

Read the full story in The Prague Post.

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