Sherlock Holmes (2009-)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Sherlock Holmes is a action/mystery film set in London in 1890 based on the fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The film stars Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, and Eddie Marsan. Sherlock Holmes was directed by Guy Ritchie with music by Hans Zimmer.
The film earned over $500 million on a budget of $90 million and was nominated for numerous awards. Robert Downey, Jr. won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some startling images and a scene of suggestive material.

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes.


Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, was released in 2011 and was also commericially successful, earning more than $520 million worldwide on a budget of $125 million.
Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, and Rachel McAdams reprised thier roles for the sequel and were joined by Noomi Rapace, Jarred Harris, and Stephen Fry.

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some drug material.

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes.


Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Category Severity Time Description Sentence Before
0:01:48-0:02:20 A brutal one-sided fight is seen twice, once in slow motion. Holmes: "Head cocked to the left...partial deafness in ear. First point of attack."
0:02:22-0:02:48 Elevated views are seen. Holmes: "Martial efficacy, quarter of an hour at best. Full faculty recovery, unlikely." ...
0:02:53-0:03:11 An ascending and multiple elevated views are seen briefly. Holmes: "Full faculty recovery, unlikely." ... Blackwood: [Speaking in a foreign language]
0:03:14-0:03:40 A one-sided scuffle occurs. Holmes: "Full faculty recovery, unlikely." ... .. Blackwood: [Speaking in a foreign language]
0:03:57-0:04:36 Multiple brutal fights occur. Watson: "He's getting his troops lined up." Holmes: "That could be all day."
0:04:05-0:04:07 An elevated view is seen briefly. Holmes: "That could be all day." ... Blackwood: [Speaking in a foreign language]
0:04:33-0:04:41 An attempted suicide (stabbing) is seen briefly. None
0:05:49-0:05:52 Hanging is inferred briefly. Inspector: "Good lad." Holmes: "Impeccable timing, Lestrade."
0:06:58-0:07:27 Mild descending and ascending views are seen. Photographer: "Gentleman, cheese." ... "Baker Street N.W." appears on screen.
0:09:39-0:10:09 A newspaper article about a hanging is seen briefly and discussed. Holmes: "Give me work. The sooner the better." Watson: "Paper. Let's see, then..."
0:11:37-0:11:43 A mild elevated view is seen. Watson: "8:30, the Royale. Wear a jacket." Holmes: "You wear a jacket." ...
0:13:02-0:13:04 Holmes: "Take Watson." Mary: "I intend to." Holmes: "See his walking stick?"
0:15:48-0:18:38 A brutal fight is seen for an extended amount of time. Watson: "Well done, old boy." ...
0:16:56-0:19:10 Some blood is seen. McMurdo: "Come on. Get up and fight. Come on."
0:19:12-0:19:19 An elevated view is seen. None
0:20:11-0:20:13 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. Blackwood: "There's someone I want to see." ...
0:20:13-0:21:18 Multiple flies are seen and discussed. Blackwood: "There's someone I want to see." ...
0:21:21-0:21:31 A mild descending view is seen briefly. Watson: "You are Blackwood's last request."
0:22:51-0:23:02 A mild ascending view is seen. Watson: "I'd like it back." Holmes: "I thought we agreed." Watson: "I want it back." ...
0:25:40-0:25:42 A mild ascending view is seen. Holmes: "I wonder if they'd let Watson and me dissect your brain."
0:27:09-0:27:38 A graphic hanging occurs. Judge: "...of five innocent young women and the attempted murder of a sixth. Do you have any final words?"
0:27:38-0:27:52 A corpse is seen and interacted with. Judge: "...Blackwood: "Death is only the beginning."
0:31:02-0:31:05 A mild elevated view is briefly seen. Irene: "Hold the door. Thanks, Doctor."
0:33:21-0:33:51 Multiple mild elevated views are seen briefly. Holmes: "Will you allow me to explain?" Watson: "I wish you would." ...
0:34:23-0:34:38 A brief one-sided fight occurs. Peddler: "Cut you a deal because you're so pretty." Irene: "Oh, my lucky day." ...
0:37:12-0:37:15 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. Holmes: "No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not."
0:39:27-0:39:29 A few maggots are seen briefly. Watson: "He had no pulse." ... Watson: "Good Lord."
0:39:27-0:39:29 A corpse is seen briefly. Watson: "He had no pulse." ... Watson: "Good Lord."
0:39:41-0:39:44 An elevated view is seen. Holmes: "Well, now we have a firm grasp of the obvious."
0:39:41-0:40:02 A corpse is seen and briefly interacted with. Holmes: "Well, now we have a firm grasp of the obvious."
0:39:48-0:40:02 Maggots are seen close-up. Holmes: "Time of death." Watson: "Diptera is.."
0:40:39-0:40:54 An elevated view is seen again. Groundskeeper: "And when the dead walk...the living will fill these coffins."
0:40:39-0:40:44 A corpse is seen from a distance. Groundskeeper: "And when the dead walk...the living will fill these coffins."
0:45:42-0:47:03 Multiple dead animals are seen briefly multiple times. Holmes: "Ammonium sulfate, among other aromas."
0:45:43-0:48:13 Flies are heard and seen occasionally. Holmes: "Ammonium sulfate, among other aromas."
0:48:38-0:50:39 Multiple fights are seen for an extended period of time. Holmes: "Meat or potatoes?" Watson: "My ten minutes are up."
0:49:28-0:49:33 Webs are seen briefly. Holmes: "Meat or potatoes?" Watson: "My ten minutes are up." ...
0:51:21-0:51:31 A mild elevated view is seen. None
0:53:01-0:53:41 Elevated views are seen. None
0:55:24-0:55:28 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. Holmes: "Watson...what have you done." ...
0:57:27-0:57:31 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. Watson: "You're not human!" Officer: "John Watson?" Watson: "Yes." Officer: "You're bail's been posted."
1:03:08-1:03:22 A mild descending view is seen. Holmes: "...how long do you expect to survive? Food for thought."
1:05:47-1:05:50 A needle is seen and used briefly. Holmes: "You decide. Which will it be?" Irene: "I told you to let it breathe."
1:07:37-1:07:40 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. None
1:09:21-1:09:51 A corpse is partially seen. Holmes: "Logic is rare. The decent thing to do is catch the killer, not provide comfort for the corpse." ...
1:11:18-1:11:27 An elevated view is seen. Holmes: "I don't know what to make of this. Excellent work. Adieu."
1:13:55-1:14:12 A person is engulfed in fire. Blackwood: "I wouldn't do that if I were you."
1:14:03-1:14:08 An elevated view is seen. Blackwood: "I wouldn't do that if I were you." ...
1:14:43-1:14:47 A mild elevated view is seen briefly. Blackwood: "You control the police. Now use them."
1:15:10-1:16:53 A corpse is seen and interacted with. Man: "Where'd you like me to put him, sir?" Holmes: "Anywhere is fine."
1:17:40-1:17:51 An ascending and descending view is seen. Watson: "He's left it there on purpose." ...
1:19:39-1:19:48 Dead and decapitated animals are seen close-up. Holmes: "Not sure. Something mechanical." Watson: "Holmes." ...
1:19:50-1:23:04 Multiple slaughtered pigs are seen multiple times. Holmes: "Not sure. Something mechanical." Watson: "Holmes." ...
1:21:16-1:21:26 Elevated views are seen briefly. Watson: "This game is designed to hurt."
1:22:20-1:23:13 Brief elevated view are seen. Holmes: "No matter, we have plenty of time." Watson: "Holmes." Irene: "It's not working!"
1:27:47-1:27:50 Bloody open wounds are seen close-up. Man: "Finish the job or the next dead body will be Sherlock Holmes." ...
1:30:15-1:30:18 A few drops of blood are seen. Rotheram: "His secret lies in the book of spells."
1:30:32-1:30:34 A man is seen burning again. Blackwood: "Three more will die and there is nothing you can do to save them."
1:30:32-1:30:34 An elevated view is seen again briefly. Blackwood: "Three more will die and there is nothing you can do to save them."
1:30:39-1:30:42 A corpse is seen again briefly. Watson: "Reordan was working with Blackwood."
1:30:39-1:30:42 Maggots are seen again briefly. Watson: "Reordan was working with Blackwood."
1:32:41-1:32:55 A steep, twisting, ascending view is seen. Holmes: "In fact, I may well have reconciled thousands of years of theological disparity. But that's for another time."
1:33:15-1:33:19 An elevated view is seen again briefly. Holmes: "...who silently control the empire share the belief with the kings, pharaohs, and emperors of old..."
1:33:36-1:33:46 A steep descending view is seen. Holmes: "...I found the bone of an ox, the tooth of a lion, the feather of an eagle, and the hair of man. Map."
1:34:01-1:34:03 An elevated view is seen again briefly. Holmes: "...I found the bone of an ox, the tooth of a lion, the feather of an eagle, and the hair of man. Map."
1:34:03-1:34:04 Maggots are seen again briefly. Holmes: "...I found the bone of an ox, the tooth of a lion, the feather of an eagle, and the hair of man. Map."
1:34:21-1:34:23 A man is seen burning again. Holmes: "...national emblem for over one hundred years. The headquarters of the Temple of the Four Orders..."
1:36:42-1:36:44 An ascending and elevated views are seen briefly. Holmes: "Very distinctive, those handmade shoes of yours."
1:37:52-1:37:54 Some drops of blood and a dead bird are seen briefly. Holmes: "A touch of red brick dust on your knee from where you've been kneeling."
1:38:51-1:38:56 An elevated view is seen. Holmes: "There isn't any time to waste, then, is there?" ...
1:40:11-1:40:27 Two mild elevated views are seen. Man: "He walks in every shadow and every puff of smoke!"
1:40:58-1:41:09 A severed rat tail is interacted with. Holmes: "The first of its kind." Irene: "You deduced that how?"
1:41:46-1:42:11 Multiple fights are seen. Watson: "She loves an entrance, your muse." ...
1:42:24-1:43:06 Multiple mild elevated views are seen. Holmes: "Shoot him. Now, please." Coward: "My Lords. My Lords. My Lords."
1:43:13-1:43:30 Multiple fights occur. Blackwood: "Listen...to the fear. I will use that as a weapon to control them...and then the world."
1:44:47-1:45:02 Multiple elevated views are seen. Holmes: "I rather wish you hadn't done that, Irene."
1:45:19-1:47:38 An extended fight sequence is seen. Irene: "I need your pipe." Watson: "Nut him!"
1:46:16-1:46:23 Two brief elevated views are seen. Irene: "I need your pipe." Watson: "Nut him!"
1:46:38-1:46:57 Two elevated views are seen briefly. Holmes: "Woman!" Watson: "What are you waiting for?"
1:47:40-1:47:49 Multiple mild elevated views are seen. Watson: "Relax. I'm a doctor." ...
1:47:50-1:54:43 A rotating, ascending view and extreme perilous views are seen. Watson: "Relax. I'm a doctor." ...
1:49:17-1:50:13 Two fights occurs. Irene: "I'll tell you everything." Holmes: "I wish you would."
1:51:47-1:51:52 Dead animals are seen briefly. Holmes: "...and was therefore undetectable once the bath water was drained."
1:52:18-1:52:20 A person is engulfed in flames. Holmes: "All it took was a spark."
1:52:30-1:52:36 Dead animals are seen again briefly. Holmes: "Like all great performers, you saved your piece de resistance for the end."
1:53:24-1:53:31 A hanging is discussed briefly and occurs off screen. Holmes: "First, the world will see you for what you are. A fraud."
1:55:49-1:56:12 A person is seen hanging. Irene: "You'll miss me, Sherlock." Holmes: "Sadly...yes."
1:55:49-1:56:12 An elevated view is seen. Irene: "You'll miss me, Sherlock." Holmes: "Sadly...yes."
1:56:53-1:58:08 A person is seen hanging for an extended period of time. Watson: "Now, five minutes here and we'll go home." Mary: "Our home." Watson: "Get up those stairs."
1:56:56-1:57:01 Suicide is mentioned once briefly. Mary: "Our home." Watson: "Get up those stairs." ... Watson: "Don't worry, dear."
1:57:18-1:57:21 Caterpillar is said once. Holmes: "But it has a surprisingly soporific effect and I was carried off in the arms of Morpheus..."
1:58:07-1:58:12 A corpse is interacted with briefly. Watson: "Yet none of this explains Blackwood's lack of pulse." Holmes: "Right."
1:58:59-1:59:03 A corpse is seen briefly. Clark: "He went missing the day you stopped Lord Blackwood in the sewers."
22:00:40-2:00:46 An elevated view is seen during the credits. Holmes: "Clarkie. Case reopened."
22:01:20-2:01:31 A fight is seen again briefly during the credits. None

Reviewed August 2017


Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

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