Dec 16, 2011

A Game of Shadows review|Action Detective film 2011

16th December 2011 released this film world wide.A game of shadows is action detective Hollywood movie.Director Guy Ritchie done business in Box office $152,674,000 money amount.let read it's review..

Lots of problems here Mr. Holmes in your second outing as the flamboyant action hero. But first things first. As a piece of cinema, we do agree of Guy Ritchie's reinvention of the 124 year-old-hero from an cogitating theorizing intellectual hero to a daredevil braggadocio. For reinventions are always progressive and take a leap ahead in the history of cinema and fiction. It is only the prude and the fastidious who turn up their nose to any twisting and turning in character and plot.

Also, you can't expect Guy Ritchie to lie low in his story telling. The only way the maverick director tells his stories is to go Lock Stock Smoking Barrels. Hence, like the first film, Game Of Shadows also follows the same idiom of action cuts classically put together to create a fast paced, visually stunning film. 

Some of the action sequences which include a train fight (a war rather than a fight) with Holmes' unconventional act against Watson's newly wed wife, a forest escape, a pub brawl on Watson's stag party, Holmes' attempt to downsize an enemy whom he visualizes as a primate bird, are absolutely mesmerizing. The film is a relentless action experience which gives enough to adrenaline hunters to get an overdose. Other than that is the atmospherics of the film that are admirable.


Shot in dense, damp, depressing and dark London's foggy weather, the visuals show you only as much as you need to see. Truly a game of silhouettes and shadows. The visual appeal will not leave you disappointed nor will the plot which travels all across the globe and climaxes in a peace summit in Switzerland. A word about the dialogues: Arresting, humorous and laced with Downey's characteristic sardonic wit.

So where lies the problem? Too much action, in fact it seems there is only action. Too long a film that might make action buffs go wild with joy but for those who like their films with a bit of drama, they will end up with a hollow feeling. Here there is too strong a reinvention of our favorite detective. After all, we did love the intellectual scholar that lay beneath that hat and loved to follow his deduction when crimes occurred and solutions were needed. For, Sherlock Holmes deductions were beyond the realm of normal intelligence. But here we hardly get to see Holmes playing Rodin even for a moment and showing us how he reaches conclusions and places. Don't transform Holmes into a totally new character from the one Arthur Conan Doyle conceived in the 1980s, Mr. Ritchie. A bit of your brilliance blended with the vision of Doyle will subtly do the trick.


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