There's a new detective back in town and he looks an awful lot like Iron Man. Guy Ritchie's latest film project, Sherlock Holmes, will be starring Robert Downey, Jr. in the title role and Jude Law as the reluctant sidekick, Dr. Watson. Undoubtedly the two will draw a crowd and the first week's opening should be a spectacular event.
It's the future weekend box offices I'm wondering about.
All the information they have released on the plot says that Holmes will stop someone from trying to take over and destroy Britain. Yes, well, we've all seen that plot. In The Day After Tomorrow the culprit was Mother Nature. In Iron Man it was Obediah Stane. In The Dark Knight it was the Joker. Given Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's treatment of his arrogant hero and the mysteries he solved, I would have expected something a little bit more ingenious. I think the literary Sherlock Holmes would be terribly disappointed that his 21st Century bigscreen debut is about saving the world.
Yawn. Been there. Done that. No t-shirt because Sherlock Holmes is above t-shirts. Just pay his fee.
And while I am a huge fan of RDJ, I must confess an apprehension at an American playing a British detective. I can't personally think of a single role in which he ever used a British accent. Of course he was spectatular as an Austrailian actor playing a black man in Tropic Thunder and he managed both of those accents well, so here's hoping he can keep it going for two hours. I am more than eager to be proven wrong.
We will know more when they finally release a trailor for the movie. Until then, let's hope and pray that it isn't so elementary and more than just a few brief fighting scenes and a half-naked RDJ arouse our interest.
By Amy
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