Title: Second verse, better than the first
Product review: When the first came out I refused to watch it, because my inner Anglophile revolted at the thought of Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes. Such abominable casting was a tragedy of positively Hellenistic proportions to a true Holmes aficionado.That said, my husband rented Game of Shadows last week and I was watching it before I realized what it was. To my astonishment, I found myself sucked in and thoroughly enjoying the experience. The only thing that bothered me (spoiler) was the incredibly trite "super villain amassing super weapons in order to start a war for profit" plotline. That part was boringly predictable and quite a letdown after the way it had been building up to that point. The sudden shift to comic book style villain was jarring and disappointing.All in all, it was still a dramatically visceral take on Holmes and his world enjoyable enough to make me watch it twice and then rent the first installment.
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