Title: A Fraudulent Sequel
Product review: What happened to Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Professor Moriarty? They are nowhere to be found in "A Game of Shadows" - a bad sequel to the 2009 original. Instead of a Holmes adventure, the producers made a James Bond retread set in the Victorian era. The film is a painful shambles: two hours of action-movie clichés and cheap laughs minus the suspense, mystery and inventiveness of its predecessor. Only the chemistry between Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law survives intact - undercut by a fraudulently misguided script and Guy Ritchie's helter-skelter direction. The character names should have been changed to prevent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from spinning in his grave.
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