Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a movie that I have been looking forward to for quite some time now as I was a huge fan of Robert Downey Jr's interpretation of the character two years ago.

His central performance earnt him a Golden Globe and I hope that he, and the movie, enjoys even more success this time around.

Guy Ritchie is back in the director's chair for the first time since that 2009 movie while Jude Law is also back as Dr Watson.

The movie promises to be bigger and better than the first as Holmes finds himself facing his toughest foe yet... Professor Moriarty.

Moriarty sees a new face on the cast list in the form of Jared Harris while Stephen Fry and Noomi Rapace also make their first appearance in the franchise.

Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.

When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. 

But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder - a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.

Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen’s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. 

It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince’s murder makes her the killer’s next target. 

Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland.

But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction... all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is released 16th December

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw


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