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Title: If you love the books skip this movie.
Review: It's another book to film adaption that will break your heart if you love the source material.Robert Downey Jr. played himself. Which is great usually, but Holmes is too iconic a figure for that to work this time. His love interest seems to exist primarily to dispel any jokes or even ideas that Watson and Holmes are gay, which certainly they would seem without her presence. Holmes is also not the dry, tortured and grave protagonist of the books, he's more like a spoiled child who knows he can get away with anything. Further, the plot is silly. At the core of every Holmes adventure should be empirical science (that's what makes him so brilliant), and this leans too heavily on the magical side.Somebody please ask Hollywood to stop financing Guy Ritchie already.
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