![]() Ritchie left school at age 15 and worked entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. His work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. John Watson - Jude Law Madam Simza Heron - Noomi Rapace Irene Adler - Rachel McAdams Professor James Moriarty - Jared Harris Mycroft Holmes - Stephen Fry Colonel Sebastian Moran - Paul Anderson Mary Watson - Kelly Reilly Mrs.Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. ![]() Screenplay, Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Ĭamera (Technicolor, Panavision widescreen), Philippe Rousselot editor, James Herbert music, Hans Zimmer production designer, Sarah Greenwood supervising art director, Niall Moroney art directors, James Foster, Nick Gottschalk, Matt Gray supervising set decorator, Katie Spencer set decorator, Alison Harvey costume designer, Jenny Beavan sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat/SDDS), Chris Munro supervising sound editor, Oliver Tarney special effects supervisor, Mark Holt visual effects supervisor, Chas Jarrett associate producer, Peter Eskelsen assistant director, Max Keene second unit directors, Paul Jennings, Chad Stahelski second unit camera, David Higgs, Alan Stewart stunt coordinators, Franklin Henson, Markos Rounthwaite, Stahelski fight coordinator, Richard R. Executive producers, Bruce Berman, Steve Clark-Hall. Produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, Dan Lin. release presented in association with Village Roadshow Pictures of a Silver Pictures and Wigram production. (For those who remember the signature Basil Rathbone movies of the 1930s and ’40s, Henry Daniell comes to mind.)Ī Warner Bros. Amid the pantheon of screen Moriartys, Harris manages to make his version suave, erudite and menacing all at once - in essence providing the audience the mental dexterity of Holmes, times two. The film only really sizzles, in fact, in its quieter moments between Holmes and Moriarty, two brilliant foes with a grudging admiration for each other. Ritchie’s visual innovation of slowing down the action to illustrate Holmes’ powers of perception certainly adds a level of pizzazz to the proceedings, though his tendency to employ the technique in conjunction with other action sequences is more deadening than exciting. Watson (Law) is preparing to marry to his fiancee (Kelly Reilly), and it gives away little to say the imperative to stop Moriarty throws a sizable monkey wrench into their honeymoon plans.Īlso sucked into the plot is a gypsy fortune teller, Simza (Noomi Rapace, the original “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”), who joins them to seek her missing brother after Holmes rescues her from an inordinately acrobatic assassin. Yet Holmes sees a hidden hand pulling the strings: the nefarious Moriarty, who is hiding in plain sight as a respected academic and author.Īs for Holmes’ semi-reluctant partner in crime-solving, Dr. Set in 1891 and globe-trotting across Europe at a frenetic pace, the disjointed plot (in a script by the husband-and-wife team of Kieran and Michele Mulroney) centers on a string of bombings that have escalated international tensions between France and Germany. Nevertheless, anyone who saw the 2009 pic won’t be surprised by Ritchie’s over-stimulated approach, and will likely be pleased by some of the more traditional elements introduced via scenes where Downey’s eccentric Holmes faces off against Harris’ Moriarty, clearly the movie’s highlight. The cerebral aspect of Holmes - what primarily distinguishes him from every other crime-fighting character - takes an inevitable beating by transforming him into an action hero, now owing as much to Ian Fleming’s literary efforts as Arthur Conan Doyle’s.
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