Sherlock Holmes

An entertaining night, a captivated audience, loveable characters, was I at the panto this cold winters night...

...o no i wasn't....

i was at Guy Ritchie's new film-Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law-which was very much a clash between the cluedoesc story line of the Da Vinci code or national treasure (thats a good thing in my eyes by the way), the action of Indiana Jones and the slickness of the Bourne series.

What resinated with me during this film was its search for answers-a quest we all like to go on and Sherlock Holmes did not disappoint.

With such references as being raised from the dead, the reading of Revelation 1:18 (the villian comparing himself with Jesus) and a constant battle between a faith response or fear response, it felt very much like a deep search for answers.

Along with the classic story line of the bad guy plotting for world domination (again, another way he tries to compare with Jesus me thinks), it really made me ponder about being around at the time when Jesus came back from the dead and the faith or fear response many people would have had-was it magic, just a trick.... or something more. Sherlock Holmes looks at his search for answers logically and tries to figure it out-something we should all do really if a man claims to have come back from the dead-so fair play to the old chap!

The costumes were timeless, the landscape scenes were epic, the slow motion clips were awesome, the camaraderie and humorous narrative between Holmes (Downey Jnr) and Watson (Law) all the while the music bringing you into its era made for great viewing.

As for the end... what the search for answers came to (whether taken from a biblical point of view or from this film alone), well....

that's elementary, my dear Watson!