{"id":1247,"date":"2009-12-26T03:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2009-12-26T03:58:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T19:58:33","slug":"sherlock-holmes-2009-its-elementary-my-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2009\/sherlock-holmes-2009-its-elementary-my-dear.html","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes (2009) &#8211; It&#8217;s Elementary, My Dear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second movie of the month at MBO Cinema, The Spring, Sarawak. And I have to admit, the main reason for me to go watch this movie is because I am an avid fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his huge collection of Sherlock Holmes stories (56 short stories, four novels). There had been quite a number of movie versions based on his tales on this world-renowned detective but I would say Guy Ritchie&#8217;s version of Sherlock Holmes (2009) is rather &quot;elementary&quot; or poor to the extent that the story line could have been better if not the same as the Sir Arthur&#8217;s portrayal of Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"638\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/00026556.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I do feel that there is a sense of imitating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0382625\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Da Vinci Code<\/a> from the way certain scenes were shot. It was rather face-paced with little attention paid to the development of the story. It was action, action and action. Sherlock Holmes turned into a iron-man liked action hero more than the talented detective that he was supposed to be. But I guess, this is the demand of modern film, and Guy Ritchie knows that well.&nbsp; Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) and Jude Law (Mr. Watson) combined to form a dynamic duo in this movie though I prefer <a onclick=\"(new Image()).src='\/rg\/castlist\/position-1\/images\/b.gif?link=\/name\/nm0413168\/';\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0413168\/\">Hugh Jackman<\/a> to be Sherlock (as his character in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0482571\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Prestige<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/sherlock.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ending was also poor, perhaps another attempt by Ritchie to pave way for a sequel, Sherlock Holmes 2. The let down of this movie is in its story but if you&#8217;re looking for action-packed movie, then this is for you! For me, it&#8217;s a good watch but not an award-winning production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second movie of the month at MBO Cinema, The Spring, Sarawak. And I have to admit, the main reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[596,7],"tags":[160,286,38,694,159],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews","tag-kuching","tag-mbo-cinema","tag-review","tag-sherlock-holmes-2009","tag-the-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}