A stylish Sherlock Holmes reimagined for 21st century The recently completed season two of "Sherlock" on PBS' "Masterpiece Mystery!" proves there is plenty of life and fun left in the 125-year-old detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
There's less of the steampunk silliness and more straightforward (and incredibly stylized) action in Guy Ritchie's latest abduction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and it is all for the better. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" again bears only the most fleeting resemblance to its cerebral Victorian origins, but we like the "new" Holmes and Watson nevertheless. Robert Downey Jr. holds nothing back in his over the top (or, as Watson says, "manic, bordering on psychotic") portrayal of the overcaffeinated and coca'd sleuth, and Jude Law brings equal -- if more rational -- energy to his Dr. Watson, much more a partner than a sidekick in this adventure.
[Holmes] is a slob? Did [Arthur Conan Doyle] say he wasn't? [Watson] is a true partner to the great, brilliant detective? Conan Doyle's Watson is a medical doctor and a war hero. Both [Robert Downey Jr.] and Law are having fun here with such iconic characters, but they're having it in ways that are both uniquely their own- it must be hard to defy the decades of tradition Holmes and Watson come laden with, even if those traditions were the inventions of previous interpreters of Conan- and perfectly faithful, in their own way. (Downey plays Holmes, for instance, as lonely, and about to get lonelier as Watson pulls away from him, but too stubborn to admit it...and maybe the Watson who "wrote" those original Holmes stories was too obtuse to notice that his friend's seclusion wasn't necessar...
More than 100 years ago, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes was featured for the first time in "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 2009, director Guy Ritchie directed the film "Sherlock Holmes," starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as his faithful companion Watson. Now we have "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," starring the same cast along with some new faces. The plot revolves around a new villain named Professor James Moriarty, the most famous criminal mastermind of the novels and short stories. It is a battle between intellects and it is intense and exciting.
When Robert Downey Jr. takes on the role of "Sherlock Holmes" on Friday, he will be doing more than simply joining a group of actors who have portrayed the fictional detective. Like all of them, he will be trying to bring to life Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth, who is brilliant in his powers of observation, crafty in his knowledge of disguise and prescient in his ability at forensic crime investigation.
I walked into "Sherlock Holmes? more than a little anxious. As a longtime fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed detective and a voracious reader of his exploits, I was concerned that director Guy Ritchie (?Snatch," "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?) was going to transform the beloved literary icon into little more than a parodic caricature (with an American actor standing in for the most quintessential of English characters, no less). As it turns out, Ritchie toed a very fine line, flirting with lampooning, burlesque satire to be sure, but also managed, just barely, to pull his film back from the brink and salvage something that, while forgettable, is at least an entertaining romp. When London is rocked by a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders, detective Sherlock Homes (Robert Do...
Take it from a lifelong fan of Arthur Conan Doyle: Robert Downey Jr. is so NOT Sherlock Holmes. That's not a hindrance - in fact, it's a big help - as he and director Guy Ritchie bring Conan Doyle's dusty Victorian-age detective into the modern world.
Ever since Sherlock Holmes was borne out of the imagination of his creator Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, the brilliant London-based "consulting detective" has never gone out of style. Holmes with his acute reasoning may even be more popular now thanks to the Baker Street Irregulars members, the expanded Sherlock Holmes Museum in London and even the 21st re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes that recently aired on PBS. But Doyle grew sick of his hero, who had become more popular -- and to some more real -- than the author himself. When Doyle tried to "kill" Holmes by pitching him over Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland in 1893, England literally went into mourning and Doyle was vilified as if he were Moriarty himself.
LOS ANGELES -- Robert Downey Jr. is trading Iron Man's metal suit for Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker hat. Downey is following his action blockbuster "Iron Man" with the title role in "Sherlock Holmes," a mystery drama based on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective and an upcoming comic-book about Holmes by Lionel Wigram, one of the movie's producers. Guy Ritchie ("Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels") is directing the Warner Bros. film, which is set to begin shooting in October, the studio said Thursday.
LAS VEGAS -- Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed. Downey offered a sneak peek Tuesday of "Sherlock Holmes," his new take on the cerebral detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Theater owners attending their annual ShoWest convention got to see Downey's Holmes in a bruising boxing match, diving from a tall building into London's Thames River and trading barbs with roommate Dr. Watson (Jude Law), who complains about the detective's slovenliness and nocturnal violin playing.
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