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I'm bad at it, I think engaging with something as a reviewer is fundamentally different from engaging with it as a reader or a viewer, and in any case I never go and see anything until someone tells me I should. So. All that said, this is what I think of the new Sherlock Holmes movie...

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So right there, poor Mark Strong has a problem persuading me that he's scary. Alprazolam en ligne afin, He does a really good job with the villain, and I'm the bastard in the back row snorting into my popcorn and thinking that he looks like Draco Malfoy all grown up and still trying really hard to make the other kids think he's badass. Purchase Alprazolam, (As an aside: weirdest thing - I swear Draco was in my parents' road the other day with a bunch of other young'uns, following a schoolbus-type effort which was stuck in the snow. My mother reports that he fell over on his face immediately after very politely wishing me good morning and being nice about my hat. There's no justice in the world, purchase Alprazolam online, if so; he was sweet and didn't deserve to fall over, and worse yet I didn't get a picture. Cheap Alprazolam online, Yes, yes, I am indeed that very bastard I mentioned earlier.)

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Purchase Alprazolam, And then to cap it all off, there's Watson; long-suffering, at the top of his own field and handy in a fight, conventional to a fault, loyal unto death. Cheap Alprazolam no rx, The friendship sizzles with unresolved man-man attraction, brotherhood, and a struggle for dominance. Above all, Connecticut CT Conn. , it works. I believe in them both. Price of Alprazolam, Oh, and they're funny together. Jude Law's dry, exasperated doctor is more than a sidekick, he's a companion in adversity and a necessary other half, purchase Alprazolam. (Damn, that's annoying; he's a month younger than I am.)

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  • Jeanne said on January 13th, 2010:

    I agree completely that it’s much less silly than previous attempts and true to the spirit of the stories. I was very skeptical about a short Holmes, but somehow RDJ pulls off even that.

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  • Brian said on January 22nd, 2010:

    I agree with just about all points, except–oddly–your evaluation of RDJ. I say “oddly” because I am, in general, a fan of his work. I just don’t think he was the right choice for Holmes. He was appropriately manic, but didn’t give me that sense of genius that Holmes has. And it’s funny that you mention him as Doctor Who, because I would have loved to see Tennant take a crack at Holmes.

  • Nick Harkaway said on January 22nd, 2010:

    Brian – I think that’s probably not RDJ’s fault; the script doesn’t give a lot of time to Holmes’s deductive reasoning – although I love the way he fights – so there really wasn’t a lot to be done on that score. It has to be said, too, that Holmes’s deductions don’t always hold water when scrutinised too closely, even in the original stories… it’s hard to strike a balance. If they choose to do more deduction in the new movie, you may be happier. Or not :)

  • Brian said on January 22nd, 2010:

    Ah, I’m just nit-picking, really–I enjoyed the movie and am looking forward to the sequel. I especially loved the little touches, like a bored Holmes shooting the “VR” into the wall. Ritchie made some bold choices and, overall, I think they worked very well.

    And maybe we’ll get Tennant as Moriarty in the next one. : )

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