This may shock a lot of people but I actually liked Watson in this movie better then I liked Holmes. Jude Law does an awesome job and I think that he captured Watson the way that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wanted him to be portrayed. Most people think of Nigel Bruce as Watson from the early Holmes films with Basil Rathbone. He was portrayed simply as a bumbling old fool, the comic relief. Doctor Watson was portrayed in the stories as a loyal friend, a skilled doctor and a brave man in a crisis. Robert Downey's interpretation of Holmes may offend some purists but it passed muster with me (one small quibble, Holmes always has to wear at least one disguise in his movies and in this case I thought he made an ugly woman!). I don't think that I have ever seen a Holmes movie where he kicked as much ass as he does in this one, its like Rambo is playing Sherlock Holmes. We don't get to see Holmes really utilize his intellectual gifts until almost the end of the movie. SPOILER ALERT This movie follows Doyle's original story The Final Problem where Holmes and Moriarty fight at the waterfall and both apparently fall to their death.
Review of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
