Notes of What I've seen: Sherlock Holmes

Haven't read any sherlock holmes' story, watched this movie because it is a box office movie and many of my friends said that the movie is good :p

The story is about two men : Holmes -a famous detective- (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson -a doctor- (Jude Law) who are friends and also partners to solve crimes.

This episode of Sherlock Holmes (I say 'episode' because I think they'll make the sequel ;p) is about people in England who are afraid of black magic practitioner : Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), so they’re really happy that he was caught and will be hanged to death. He was hanged and Watson called the time of his death before finally he was buried.
Meanwhile, Holmes ex-girlfriend Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) came to Holmes apartment asking him to find a man. After she left, Holmes followed her and found out that Irene was hired by a man whom she was really scared to.
Not long after that, someone saw Blackwood rose from grave and after they opened Blackwood’s coffin, there was the person Irene had been looking for inside it. The story after that was about Holmes and Watson look for clues to find Blackwood and logically solve all the “black magic” happened.

I feel the story pace was fast and the explanation of all the solving was explained quite fast so you really must pay attention to what Holmes said and to screen that showed what really happened/what Holmes thought was happened. The movie is very successful in showing Holmes as a very logical, well calculated and smart person..though at many times his luck played the biggest part :)
I don’t know what Holmes is in the novels, but many people said that he should be just plain logical person, he should not be at all comical like in one scene where he paid a lady in the street to pretend to be a palm-reader and told bad premonitions so Watson will cancel his plan to proposal to his girlfriend Mary.

Overall, this movie is just quite entertaining, don’t feel anything through the movie, not at all excited seeing the explosions , fights, nor getting “wow” effect from seeing how smart Holmes is in the movie. I think the best in this move is Rachel McAdams’ act and the city view…:D *when will I go there…mmm…*

-2009.01.04-