I’ve been looking forward to seeing the new Sherlock Holmes movie for months. Robert Downey Jr. has always been one of my favorite actors. I think I fell in love with him in Heart and Souls. I use to watch it on VHS when I was home sick from school. Guy Ritchie, while not my favorite director, has made some entertaining films before. Let’s just say I had high hopes walking into the theater tonight.

It started off well. Ritchie created that dark and dreary London that we’re all familiar with from films like Sweeney Todd and The Elephant Man. Holmes displayed his unique mind by plotting out a blow-by-blow plan for a fight. We see this in slow motion while his thoughts play as a voice-over. Then he executed that plan just as he intended but the camera angles and movements during the fight were terrible. I couldn’t really tell what was happening and this held true for all the rest of the fight sequences. Further, the plot never grabbed me. There was a villain (Mark Strong), whose plan and objective were never really explained; there was a girl (Rachel McAdams), whose feelings for Holmes and intentions were unclear; there was Watson (Jude Law), who was a buddy but didn’t add anything.

I think the best part of the whole thing was seeing the trailer for Iron Man 2. Check out what my husband thought at neverblog.net.