Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 action mystery film based on the character of the same name created by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg was developed from a story by Lionel Wigram and Michael Robert Johnson. Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. In the film, Holmes and his companion Watson, with aid from former adversary Irene Adler, investigate a series of murders connected to occult rituals. Mark Strong plays the villain Lord Blackwood, who has somehow returned after his execution with a plot to take over the British Empire using an arsenal of dark arts and new technologies.
The film went on general release in the United States on December 25, 2009, and on December 26, 2009, in the UK, Ireland, and the Pacific, and was met with a largely positive critical reaction. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Art Direction, which it lost to Up and Avatar, respectively.
The film opened to an estimated $62.4 million in its first weekend in America alone, placing in second at the US box office to Avatar, which grossed $75.6 million. The film earned a strong per-theater average of $18,031 from its 3,626 theaters. Its one-day Christmas sales broke records. Sherlock Holmes had grossed $523,000,000 worldwide making it Guy Ritchie’s biggest box-office success yet, and the 8th highest grossing film of 2009 worldwide, and domestically.
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OK, let’s state the obvious – this ISN’T Sherlock Holmes. This is “Sherlock Bond”, a steampunk romp that bears as much resemblance to the original stories as “A Knight’s Tale” faithfully recreated medieval England. And the mystery is a cop-out; how the hell could any viewer be reasonably expected to solve it? And how did Holmes know that when the lord tried to shoot Blackwood that the flames that burnt him had the same tint as the fire when the dock exploded – given that he didn’t actually see the first incident?
For all that, this was great fun – a bit like the Basil Rathbone films of the 1940′s, the fidelity to the source material wasn’t perfect, but this was still great fun. And, to be fair, while accuracy wasn’t a strong point, at least they didn’t make Watson the clod that Nigel Bruce did.
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