You know, in the last years, the famous trend "sequel worst than first one" has been disproved: for example, during the last decade we've seen sequels like "Blade II", "Toy Story 3" and "Hellboy II", not forgetting Nolan's "The Dark Knight".
So, is "Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows" better than the 2009 surprising box-office hit? Surprisingly, the answer is "hell yeah"!
First of all, this chapter reprise the figure of Professor Moriarty (introduced a little in the first movie), the real nemesi of the private detective, with their "game of shadows", obviously rewrote to fit the atmosphere of the previous movie, which this conserve the best elements, like the relationship between Holmes and Watson, refining the defects but not only them: the fighting scenes are very well planned; the other new characters introduced are very well drawn, especially Mycroft Holmes (the most british men in the movie, thanks to Stephen Fry) and Madame Simza (played by Noomi Rapace, known for the role of Lisbeth Sanders in the Theatrical Swedish version of Millennium Trilogy), but everything works thanks to the mastery of Guy Ritchie: the english director finally shows us a very matured skill of shooting movies: in fact, he uses rallenty where is needed, without overusing it (generally this tecnique is used too much in the blockbusters editing), but the best thing that the ex Mr. Ciccone shows us is to have used more his hand that charactirezes his movies, proabely due to the box-office gross of the first movie: if in the previous film this was limited just to the fighting scenes, finally not only the fighiting scenes are very similar to the "Snatch" once, but also its frenetic editing is present (with their onomatopeic attribute) giving the movie a very frenetic rhytm that fits perfectly with the story, which is very well devised, thanks also to the good job of the actors.
In the end, this action-packed adventure is a great family blockbuster, which only goal is to relax the audience: for christmas, we cannot ask anything better than this.
RESULT: 7.5/10
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