12-13-2011, 01:41 PM
If you didn't like the first one - GREG - you'll hate this one. It's more of the same, only less so. Even less substance, even more style. It's a pretty frantic film, mostly about the bromance between Downey & Law. Noomi is really captivating but learning she was a subscriber to our mag in Girl who Played with Fire, she can do no wrong in my eyes. It's even a bigger departure from the source material, which it comes back to in the end by means of SPOILERwaterfallENDSPOILER.
I chuckled now and again at the antics. There are a few slo-mo scenes that are visually stunning, but nothing so amazing to go out of your way to see.
It was fun to see it with CF as he didn't see the first one and LCF is a huge Downey fan who was chastising me for taking him instead of her. Hopefully he'll share his take on it, but I think he was disappointed that there weren't any spacesuits or a single platypus.
The fights are ok. More Sherlock vision, but it was far better done in the first film. No sword fights. Almost. There's swords, just no one fights with one. There's a knife fight that almost counts. A sword fight would have been welcome. No bartitsu really. Some wing chun, which will be the crux of my official review (my trade for the screener). I'll share that when it goes live on Friday.
I chuckled now and again at the antics. There are a few slo-mo scenes that are visually stunning, but nothing so amazing to go out of your way to see.
It was fun to see it with CF as he didn't see the first one and LCF is a huge Downey fan who was chastising me for taking him instead of her. Hopefully he'll share his take on it, but I think he was disappointed that there weren't any spacesuits or a single platypus.
The fights are ok. More Sherlock vision, but it was far better done in the first film. No sword fights. Almost. There's swords, just no one fights with one. There's a knife fight that almost counts. A sword fight would have been welcome. No bartitsu really. Some wing chun, which will be the crux of my official review (my trade for the screener). I'll share that when it goes live on Friday.
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