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The world’s most famous detective is making a famous comeback on the big screen. This is the man who can see the clues that no one else can see and can spot the suspect before anyone else can guess. He is like the Dos Equis guy, “the most interesting man in the world”, but he is a detective. His name is Sherlock Holmes and he is played by Robert Downey Jr, in this new big screen adaptation on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. But the disappointment is that the movie does not live up to what it could be.

We find our hero and his sidekick Watson (Jude Law) years after just cracking a case involving black magic and devil worship, which is the first ten minutes of the movie. Soon after people that were involved with the suspect who was caught and executed being killed one by one. Holmes is then visited by an old flame (Rachel McAdams) who is not all she seems to be as we come to find out as the movie goes on.

Now I say that this movie is a disappointment, well it is, because of how the original source material is treated here. First of all to give the makers credit they stay true to the character of Sherlock Holmes. That and the fact that Downey was good as Holmes get weighed down by the fact that the source material gets shot down. The writers turn Holmes into a mix of Indiana Jones and James Bond, all in all basically they make him out to be a superhero rather than an ordinary detective. But also they throw in many subplots that blatently set the film up a Sherlock Holmes 2 instead of focusing on the main plot. To sum it all up Sherlock Holmes was a major disappointment and is probably best suited to be a rental rather than spend ten bucks to see in a theatre.

By: Adam Miller

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