Robert Downey Jr. is Sherlock Holmes…
Our inspectors are baffled by the mystery of it: somehow, our favourite Victorian hero was mistaken for Inspector Gadget. Guy Ritchie resurrects London’s drug-reliant super-detective and ditches his deerstalker hat for ninja skills and fruity dialogue. Accompanied by Watson (Jude Law), a plot involving the occult and other destructive powers sends Mr. Holmes on a mission fraught with explosions, bare-knuckle boxing and ridiculous acrobatics.
See him leap into the Thames from Westminster Palace, blow up half of London looking for criminals and get chained to a bed by a whore. Arthur Conan Doyle‘s quick-witted 18th century legend is dragged, kicking and screaming into the box office of the future, making a name for cheesy one-liners and walking stick martial arts. A sense of humour failure is expected from the purists.
Tom J says
So let me get this right; the character of greatest British detective who ever lived is being played by… Robert Downey Jr? Fuck you Hollywood, just fuck you.
gilbert wham says
The only cure is to watch Jeremy Brett.
Thirteen says
I love Sherlock Holmes. I like Robert Downey Jr. But who the hell did come up with the stupid idea that the latter should portray the former? Oh, that was Guy Ritchie. Though I like his films too, I am not going to watch this, the trailer was enough for me… Alas, the internet generation wouldn’t know the “real” Holmes – because he is a literature character. You know, books. Those paper things with words in it.
I’m feeling ancient, though I am 26 :)
Thirteen says
Yes, Jeremy Brett was splendid. I’ll add that series to my “must watch again” list..
Craigster says
Every actor who has worked with Downey says he’s a genius. He can play just about anything and who else would bring in movie goers of all ages. Especially since Iron man, if you put him in a documentary about snails a 9yr old would want to see it.
It couldn’t be any worse than an animated mouse. Remember “The Great Mouse Detective”.
Star says
Could be worse…far far worse…Christian Bale and his lisp.
Thirteen says
I agree that he’s a brilliant actor. But as Holmes he’s just not so believable to me. Or maybe because the trailer contains such scenes with a lot of “action” and “funny” lines.. it’s just something I don’t want to see ever again, thank you very much. I always imagined much darker atmosphere.. this is just too flashy, too Hollywood. And that cheapens it. Even Downey can’t help it if the character is written as such. And Law as Watson? Oh please, I really never want to see that again..
Why couldn’t there be a darker, subtle film with no such obviously straightforward shove-down-your-throat attempts to show that humor, that irony of the characters? I’m biased as being a fan of the books, I know. I don’t mind if the script drives away from the book, I just need quality everywhere (that’s a habit of being a software tester :)
I just don’t like it being turned into a cheap plastic parody (if it was intended like parody anyway…) I miss previous Guy Ritchie’s films (“Lock, Stock…”, “Snatch” – brilliance). Guy lost it, it seems.
Christian Bale says
Jude Law was in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Shoscombe Old Place, as young Joe Barnes.
And seeing as how Rachel McAdams, indeed tarted up, is listed on imdb.com as Irene Adler, a character who was very much NOT a whore….my expectations are notched down a little. But yeah, still want to see it, sorry. Jeremy Brett rocks my world right now, but so does Robert Downey, Jr.
What about the Will Ferrell/Sasha Baron Cohen version of Sherlock that is in development?
Lisp? What lisp?