Yogesh Bedre

Professor Moriarty: Are you sure you want to play this game? Sherlock Holmes: I'm afraid you'd lose. In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, my mind turns two ways: The first half is guns, gunpowder, and gymnastics. Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Dr. Watson (Jude Law) contend with the salvation of civilization mostly through athletics, aided by director Guy Ritchie's considerable skill with the camera and graphics. But in the second half, when the duo moves swiftly but intellectually to confront the arch-villain Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris), my mind is at equilibrium, renewing my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original brainy, eccentric sleuth. The chess game is a marvel of strategy, replete with revenge, intrigue, and just plain ingenuity. Director Guy Ritchie's visuals include delightful Downey disguises and lively speed ramping in a forest bombarded by bullets. Hans Zimmer's music leans heavily on the fiddle to lighten the load of a difficult plot. Watson's marriage, rather than taking away from the bromance, adds unexpected color and creativity. So Ritchie has ramped up the intellectual content and at least balanced it with the athletic, which was a strength of his 2009 version, Sherlock Holmes. With Inspector Lestrade just a memory and Holmes's love, Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), appearing briefly, we are left to enjoy not so much the interaction of Holmes and Watson but the explosiveness of Holmes and Moriarty. After the first half of explosions, the second half satisfies traditionalists like me for the chess game of life and death—and that's the suspenseful fate of the world in those pieces. Director Guy Ritchie has improved on his 2009 version.

I have watched the original movie Kanchana in Tamil-Hindi dub and this movie has been remade in Hindi after almost 10 years. So definitely while watching I had the original in mind and I am not even comparing, this movie is a very very loud, over the top comedy, with senseless dialogues that don't sound real and also don't fit in the scenario, everyone looks and acts stupid here. surprisingly they have cast the best actors here. Akshay Kumar is almost everywhere in this movie, Kiara is just there like a model to smile, laugh, get scared, and sing stupid songs like Burj Khalifa in Dubai. other characters just scream, shout, and make funny faces. Akshay screams, shouts, and in between preaches. I won't say anything about the story since the original movie everyone has seen. Sharad has acted really well that's one star is just for his hard work. well, overall not a great movie to see. I waste my time.