And the slomo effects sometimes make the anticipation of the impact almost worse than the impact itself. Though the fight scenes are very choreographed and stylized, theyre bonecrunching and often brutal. Sherlock holmes fires an opening salvo from the shadows at the uk box office charles gant. A game of shadows opens with an emergency that threatens to rock holmes world. A game of shadows lands at the uk box office with a bang, while alvin and the chipmunks. Director guy ritchie lock, stock and two smoking barrels dialed back his annoying tendency to emphasize flash and attitude above all, jude law made for a dryly selfdeprecating dr. In the first film, we learned of his engagement to mary watson kelly reilly, and now a date has been set for the poor girl. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide.
The only connecting threads between doyles and downeys versions are 1 the professor moriarty is the great criminal mastermind the napoleon of crime. Original motion picture soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2009 film of the same name, directed by guy ritchie, starring robert downey jr. A game of shadows is an entertaining adventure filled with several scenes of action violence and mayhem. Overview sherlock holmes has always been the smartest man in the roomuntil now. Sherlock holmes and the shadow watchers 2011 rotten. The story is loosely based on the last book of the conan doyles first series of holmes stories ending with the famous reisenbach falls in switzerland. John watson characters created by sir arthur conan doyle. Parents need to know that, like its predecessor, sherlock holmes. Detective sherlock holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind professor moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across europe. A game of shadows is the 2011 sherlock holmes film directed. What does the ending of sherlock holmes game of shadows. It is a sequel to the 2009 film sherlock holmes, based on the character of the same name created by sir arthur conan doyle. A young prostitute is brutally murdered by a psychopathic killer, while a group of masked men watch enthusiastically from the shadows.
The screenplay is written by kieran mulroney and michele mulroney. It is a sequel to the 2009 film sherlock holmes, and likewise features the sherlock holmes and dr. Composer hans zimmers jaunty theme for guy ritchies muscular 2009 reimagining of the worlds most recognizable superdetective, sherlock holmes, dutifully reflected the newly installed humor and 21st century action star pathos that the director brought to the character. There is a new criminal mastermind at largeprofessor moriarty and not only is he holmes intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of. The shadows of sherlock holmes by david stuart davies. A game of shadows movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. He wanted to instead, focus on his historical novels, which he considered serious literature. Lovegrove does an outstanding job of evoking doyles style and mixing in healthy dollops of the macabre and fantastic that define the cthulhu mythos sherlock holmes and the shadwell shadows sets a pretty high bar.
A game of shadows is a 2011 period action mystery film directed by guy ritchie and produced by joel silver, lionel wigram, susan downey, and dan lin. We are a company that sells limited edition and collectible bluray items that come from all over the world. The movie take place in 1891, one year after the previous part. However, in response to overwhelming public demand, doyle wrote another story and resurrected holmes. It was released on december 2011, three days before the film was released itself. Game of shadows is the follow up to robert downey jr.
There are few joys as great in life as having a good enemy. A game of shadows is a 2011 britishamerican action mystery film directed by guy ritchie and produced by joel silver, lionel wigram, susan downey and dan lin. A game of shadows, the sequel to guy ritchies 2009 hit. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest. A game of shadows original motion picture soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2011 film of the same name. In sir arthur conan doyles story the final problem intended to be the final sherlock holmes story, holmes defeated moriarty in the same way, by falling over a waterfall to the apparent death of both. Plenty of action, suspense and, of course, holmes thinking his actions out before he does them. In the shadow of sherlock holmes features about twenty short stories by authors well known and not so well known. The shadows of sherlock holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction. The screenplay was written by michele mulroney and kieran mulroney.
Hans zimmer collaborated again with lorne balfe to produce the score. Detective sherlock holmes and his stalwart partner watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of england. Moriarty is benevolently signing books in waddesdon manor, english home of. Referring to himself as a consulting detective in the stories, holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating. Sherlock holmes and the shadwell shadows the cthulhu. In the early 1960s, cia agent napoleon solo and kgb operative illya kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization. Granted, we had the last of the winter blockbusters, sherlock holmes. A game of shadows yesterday with my two closest friends, and we thoroughly enjoyed the film. Guy ritchies followup to 2009s sherlock holmes sees holmes and watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, professor moriarty, played here by jared harris.
To be honest some of the stories should maybe have stayed in the archives but it does at least give the reader in the shadow of sherlock holmes is a slightly misleading title as none of the short stories featured in the book have. However, detective sherlock holmes robert downey jr. Sherlock holmes and the shadows of st petersburg daniel. It was a nearly recordbreaking week on the bluray sales chart this week, which is very strange for this time of year. The films screenplay was written by michele mulroney and kieran mulroney.
The story involves the gruesome murder of two women, madame lespanye and her daughter, madamoiselle camille lespanye, the latter whose body was found in a locked 4th story room of their residence, throttled and shoved up a chimney, while the former was found in the courtyard with her throat so deeply cut that her head fell off during the retrieval of her cadaver. Shadows of sherlock holmes wordsworth collection 9781853267444. A game of shadows bluray and dvd arrive june 12th mar 16, 2012. A game of shadows, zimmer once again infused the series with wit and wickedness, stacking his already. The original was sent to mary in london, who decrypted the code using a book that holmes had noticed in moriartys office during their first meeting, before. A game of shadows is even more action packed than the first movie starring robert downey, jr. Sherlock holmes and the shadwell shadows is the first in a new trilogy of books by author james lovegrove merging together sir arthur conan doyles classic canon and literary characters of sherlock holmes and dr watson with the cthulu mythos created by h. It is the sequel to the 2009 film sherlock holmes, and features the sherlock holmes and dr. Is the film sherlock holmes game of shadows based on one. A game of shadows is a 2011 britishamerican action mystery film directed by guy ritchie and produced by joel silver, lionel wigram, susan downey, and dan lin. Film uit 2011 sherlock holmes boekverfilming mystery britse film film van guy ritchie. A game of shadows i see everything, that is my curse shadows part 1 and more. Watson jude law, who are accompanied by a gypsy noomi rapace whose life holmes saved.
The entire cast is reassembled for game of shadows, including kelly reilly as mary watson and rachel mcadams as irene adler. We sell slip covers, steelbooks, digibooks, digipacks, figurines and anything releated to bluray products, shipped in well protected boxes. The very suspenseful, exciting storyline provides a great battle of wits between good and evil, but it has some intense scenes of violence and brief crude content, so caution is advised, especially for preadolescents. So, if youve read the books, you would know that the final problem is where acd kills off holmes because he got tired of writing about him. A game of shadows contains all the action movie beats amped up audiences are hoping for, in fact the big budget explosions. John watson, noomi rapace madam simza heron, jared.
The bad news is, sherlock holmes throws his bride off a moving train. That last one is done brilliantly in the films climactic scene towards the end, by the way. The best of sherlock holmes paperback october 26, 2011 by sir arthur conan doyle author see all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Holmes downey, who considers himself every bit as much good company as the doctor. When austrias crown prince is found dead, evidence seems to point to suicide. I know it follows how it goes down usually in the books and other works but when sherlock pulls moriarty down the falls with him, of note is that watson enters the balcony as sherlock has moriarty in a hold, apart from causing an adaptional variance for once, what was stopping him holding moriarty for a few seconds so watson could take him down, remember watson was a soldier, who is behind. Game of shadows concerns the first showdown between holmes and professor moriarity.
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