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Summary
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Acting
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Film
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Edge
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Reality
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TRUST WEIGHTED
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Great | Great | Great | Risqué | Glib |
| AVERAGE | Great | Great | Great | Risqué | Glib |
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Great
4.0
Rock ’em, Sock ’em Holmes. Brilliant star Robert Downey Jr. turns the mythical detective into an action hero of the fi… |
Very Good 3.5 |
Great
4.0
The film admirably sweeps aside dandified characterizations, harking back to Conan Doyle’s bare knuckled fighter… |
Risqué
1.8
Visceral hand-to-hand violence comes early and often. While occasionally comic, it’s not comik violence… |
Surreal
2.1
What does it take to place Conan Doyle’s Victorian detective in IndyJonesian hyper-reality? 45 stuntmen, 25 FX players,… |
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Great
4.0
Sherlock and Watson kick-ass in a great action thriller that infuses an old English tradition with modern movie stunts … |
Great
4.0
Downey and Law were perfectly cast for this! Downey with his sarcastic humor believably draws forth annoyance from Law… |
Great
4.0
Guy Ritchie has a sequel making recipe with Holmes. It took his style of production to really light a new fire under th… |
Risqué
1.9
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Surreal
2.1
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Really Great
4.5
I enjoy this film for a number of reasons: the use of the Freemason/Jack the Ripper theories in the plot, the way the a… |
Really Great
4.5
Downey Jnr was awesome as Holmes, but perhaps not the kind of awesome someone who wanted to see another wisecracking To… |
Great
4.0
CGI was a bit scruffy in places, but otherwise no complaints. Again, most of the overly stylish moments actually inhanc… |
Risqué
2.2
A few graphic slo-mo punchs, a couple sex jokes, nothing too bad. |
Glib
1.3
A few moments of scientific liberty were taken, but nothing impossible. |
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May 14, 2010 11:44PM
Wick
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Regarding BrianSez’s Review |
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Jan 15, 2010 7:04AM
MJ5K
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Haha I said just kidding : ) |
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Jan 14, 2010 11:51PM
Wick
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Yep, I call ’em as I see ’em, and try not to give nihilism extra credit just because it seems so heavy. |
