

His version of Victorian London is moody and atmospheric. The movie's opening shot grabs you, and Guy Ritchie's directing stays gripping all the way through the end titles. In the stories, Mary was Holmes' client in "The Sign of Four" before Holmes first encountered Irene Adler Rachel McAdams in "A Scandal in Bohemia." Then again, the continuity of the stories was rarely important to filmmakers, or even to Sir Arthur, so I'm just nitpicking.As a film on its own merits, "Sherlock Holmes" is almost perfect. Watson's fiancée, Mary Morstan, played as a delicate English rose by Kelly Reilly. Everything from the experiments Holmes performs in his Baker Street flat to his climatic revelation of the mystery on the Tower Bridge seems perfectly in line with Doyle's writing.One of the only departures from the canon that bothered me was Sherlock's introduction to Dr. It's exactly the type of mystery Doyle would have devised, with plenty of twists and opportunities for Holmes to show off his genius as he races to stop a plot to take over England and gasp! America. Blackwood is executed, but when he seemingly rises from the dead, the deductive duo must determine whether it's a supernatural occurrence or if there's a logical explanation.
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The movie opens with Holmes and Watson apprehending serial killing Satanist Lord Blackwood played broodingly by Mark Strong. Hudson Geraldine James and shares an antagonistic but symbiotic relationship with police Inspector Lestrade Eddie Marsan.

He playfully torments his housekeeper Ms.
