I finally saw Sherlock Holmes for the first time. It was absolutely awesome. I have read the entire Sherlock Holmes collection, and I don’t remember this story being in there so it must have been an original screenplay, but I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be extremely proud of the film. The story was brilliant, the acting was excellent, and the cinematography was amazing.

Funny thing is, when I was watching it I kept thinking that they were totally ripping off Guy Ritchie (and doing a fantastic job, mind you.) I knew nothing about the film prior to renting it, other than it had Robert Downey Jr. in it. Finally as soon as the movie ended the first thing that popped up was that it was a Guy Ritchie film. I was pleased, not only that he had taken on a film that was somewhat different from all his other films, but also that my suspicions were affirmed. I only wish I had known it was Guy Ritchie all along, or else I wouldn’t have spent the whole movie blaming them for the rip-off.

I did have one problem with the film, however. Downey’s British accent (and the others’ accents as well) were so completely British that I had a hard time understanding a lot of the dialogue! I want to watch the film again with captioning on just so I can catch everything. Ha ha ha…

Anyway, everyone has probably already seen it so I don’t need to do any recommending but I just wanted to make a note that I thought this was a great film; and I love Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie even more now.