Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson find themselves embroiled in a struggle against a conspiracy, the outcome of which will determine the fate of all of England.
Sherlock Holmes 4K ReviewSherlock Holmes tries to neutralize the evil Lord Blackwood - but even after being hanged, he rises from the grave with new satanic plans. Guy Ritchie's version of Sherlock Holmes is an unshaven drunk who plays the violin like a ukulele. He's nervous. He is childish, like Carlson, and in every possible way discourages Watson from marrying. He is unable to sit still. He uses the deductive method first of all in order to understand in which places a particular person should be beaten (“he obviously drinks - I'll hit him in the liver”).
The reanimation of the literary hero, frozen in the mass consciousness in the form of an intelligent mummy with a pipe, went very well. Downey Jr. loves the role terribly, he invests in it with a childish passion - and, here's luck, he mates amazingly with Jude Law: it seems that Holmes and Watson have been friends from school, love each other like newlyweds, and scold just to have fun ( and - no, they are not gay). Cinematographer Philippe Russloh creates an insanely beautiful stylized Victorian London: the city and era have never looked so great on screen. Few action episodes are great. There are some good jokes.
On this, the list of advantages has to be cut off. Because the script is loose, with a lot of unnecessary body movements, explanations and exaggerations. Conan Doyle would have winced. The main villain, Professor Moriarty, does not even show his face, and the secondary one is too unattractive to seriously scare anyone (he is played by Mark Strong, who plays the role of "typical villain" - everything is clear at first glance). Richie himself languishes in this scenario. He has a very distracted attention, like a dog.
Richie was comfortable in light, non-binding anecdote plots with two dozen main characters, between whom he jumped merrily and swore. In the second-rate drama of Sherlock Holmes, the director's mind is bogged down like fuel oil. Although the carelessness, rudeness and courage, which Richie has always been famous for, are still visible in the film.
Info Blu-ray Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital (640 kb/s)
Subtitles
English SDH, French, German SDH, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.