sherlock holmes (guy ritchie, 2009)

I didn't care for many of the lines or a lot of the plot. And the fourth point on the cross is... Oh my! This sort of thing plays better if there's more distance between the audience and the crimesolvers, so that such plot developments are more clearly not the point but just an excuse for the aesthetics to play out. Like in Von Trier's Element of Crime.

But Robert Downey Jr was just too charming for me not to have a good time. And Jude Law was charming too.

The whole time I was watching this, I thought that Lord Blackwood was being played by Christopher Meloni. (The end credits revealed the actor to be Mark Strong.)