Sherlock Holmes - 2009

This is another toy film, entertaining, but not something I'd want to watch again and again. 

It starts with Sherlock and Watson stopping a murdering Lord and saving a girl, whose parents had hired Sherlock. Good thing too, the police arrived that it was all over.

After weeks of no interesting cases, Sherlock is not faring well, between drugs and gunshots. Watson insists Sherlock joins him for dinner so to meet his girlfriend Mary, who unwisely insists Sherlock shows his deductive skills on her. He is mostly right, but also very wrong and insulting. She throws wine in his face when he gets one thing wrong ; her previous fiancee died, she didn’t leave him because he didn’t have enough money choosing instead to find herself a doctor…

In what looks like an underground match, Sherlock fights a man much bigger than himself, and wins of course. 

Lord Blackwood is like an evil warlock or something and his last wish is to see Sherlock… both guards and prisoners think that Blackwood can enter their minds, control them. There were five deaths, five women of course, before Sherlock caught him; he believes in his Black Magic or whatever and tells Sherlock that three more will die. He is hanged and Watson declares him dead.

Irene Adler enters his flat while he sleeps. They have a past, he keeps her picture. She gives him a job, and he accepts even if he shouldn’t, since she got the better of him twice already.

Now rumour has it Blackwood walked out of his tomb alive. 

Watson is a gambler. Sherlock doesn’t want him to get married and move out.

Blackwood’s father is some rich man leader of some kind of Order like the Illuminati. Blackwood kills him, taking the lead, and also kills an ambassador who kept opposing him. He wants to rule Britain and retake the United States.

Sherlock is wanted by the law now, and Watson is in a hospital after an explosion.

Sherlock feels bad, but Mary doesn’t blame him, instead encourages him to solve the case. 

They saved Irene from death, and she’d like to go away but the man who hired her won’t let her. 

At first a cop lets Sherlock go but eventually Lestrade arrests him… well, he lets himself get arrested with Lestrade’s help, to learn more.

Sherlock, Watson and Irene go and fight together. She disarms the chemical bomb, because of course it was not magic. 

In the end, Blackwood dies, Irene is still alive and tells him that the man that ordered her around is a professor called Moriarty, a much of a genius as he is.

Moriarty found out her weakness (well, the last time he threatened to kill Sherlock).

The film ends with Holmes and Watson on a new case… or a continuation of the old one… the police tells them that a cop has been killed and that something has been taken, stolen, so they investigate.

Wiki says that Moriarty took a piece of the machine, the bomb, and that that was what he wanted from the start…boh, ok.

Sherlock - Robert Downey Jr

Watson - Jude Law

Irene - Rachel McAdams

Blackwood - Mark Strong

Lestrade - Eddie Marsan

Mary - Kelly Reilly