Sherlock Holmes 2009

Sherlock Holmes 2009: Let’s firstly start off with showing y’all the trailers shall we?

Yep, time to talk about this 2009 gem of a film. Out of all the Sherlock Holmes adaptations, these 2 I’ll be reviewing are my favorite. I just adore Jude Law as Dr. Watson and Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes.

Well enough of that let’s get the rating out of the way so we can get into spoilers.

Overall I absolutely loved this film, it also helps that this film is filled with a fantastic cast. We got,

Robert Downey Jr.
Sherlock Holmes

Jude Law
Dr. John Watson

Rachel McAdams
Irene Adler

Mark Strong
Lord Henry Blackwood

Eddie Marsan
Inspector Lestrade

Robert Maillet
Dredger

Geraldine James
Mrs. Hudson

Kelly Reilly
Mary Morstan

Hans Matheson
Lord Coward

This film is what got me intrigued by the character of Sherlock Holmes, so I have a massive soft spot for this film. So overall I’ll give this film a solid 10/10, warning spoilers ahead y’all been warned.

So in this film both Sherlock and Watson get the aid of Inspector Lestrade to go apprehend Lord Blackwood, who’s in the middle of doing a ritual sacrifice.

Anyways they get to him and they arrest him before he’s able to finish the ritual. Also here’s the full clip.

Anyways Sherlock is invited out to dinner with Watson to meet his new lovely girlfriend Mary…..he unfortunately upsets her by reading her mind, even though she asked him to.

He read her and mentioned that her ex-husband left her and mow she was here. She tosses wine at him and says he didn’t leave. He died, yeah it was this interaction that made her hate Sherlock.

Even though just a few min ago she was a huge fan of him, Zhe read all about him. Yeah, lesson learned never meet ur heroes.

Now Blackwood is sentenced to death and he’s gonna be hung, with Watson there at the court to make sure he’s dead.

But before that, Blackwood asks for Sherlock to show up to say his goodbyes to….when I say that I mean he basically wants to tell Sherlock he needs to get the dull Pic of things to come. For u see he believes in magic while Sherlock doesn’t.

Anyways at his hanging, he tells them death is only the beginning, then Watson pronounces Blackwood dead. Anyways Sherlock meets Irene when he wakes up to her in his room.

Also he met her earlier when he was fighting a person at an underground arena, he saw her there in the crowd. Btw this music played during this fight scene, I cannot get this song out of my head btw.

And I don’t think y’all will either after listening to that.

Anyways, when she leaves his house, he follows her by disguising himself, he follows her to a carriage where she’s talking to someone covered in shadow (it’s Moriarty, but played by a different actor).

Oh and turns out Blackwood is alive. They get called over to the graveyard where one of the men is there in shock after seeing Lord Blackwood coming out of his grave, uhhhhhhh creepy. Oh, guess who they find inside his grave when they dig it up? A small guy, huh?

So Sherlock and Watson go pay the Blackwoods family who is still alive, with emphasis on the words “Still Alive”.

Because eventually he starts hunting them down and kills them in a way to make it look like an accident.

Also, both Sherlock and Watson go investigate an old lab that a small guy was working at, here they find all sorts of weird creations, including a dissected frog. And some mix of honey and powder in a bowl.

Then these big henchmen and a small henchmen walk into the room where Sherlock and Watson have to fight them off.

Anyways Blackwood kills the eldest family member by having him drown in his bathtub, how shady.

He kills another guy when he enters a building during rainy weather that he attends, only to find his men there with Blackwood…..kneeling to him, oh and the youngest family member Lord Coward joins Blackwood….he essentially drank the cool aid.

He then pulls out his gun to aim at Blackwood but then his gun backfires and sets the guy on fire, so he runs out of the building (yeah keep that death in mind for later).

Come to near the end of the second act, now Lord Coward is in charge of the police department. Sherlock and Watson and Irene have a plan to stop Blackwood.

They find out Blackwood has this device he’s got that he’s planning on using to detonate this gas, to kill a room filled with people.

But Sherlock gets taken to Lord Coward by the hands of Inspector Lestrade, Sherlock gets Lord Coward to reveal Lord Blackwood’s plan. Which he doesn’t, but luckily for Sherlock he figures it all out because he’s a genius.

He looks for small details and can read people’s facial cues (kinda funny because he’s a sociopath). Anyways Sherlock let’s the flames in the fireplace overfill which causes smoke in the room. He uses that time to escape his chains and jump out the window, where he meets Watson and Irene on a boat.

He reveals that Inspector Lestrade was in on this, on the ride there he handed over a key to Sherlock so he can escape his chains, well that’s clever.

Anyways, the big guy shows back up as Sherlock makes it to the lower decks of the building to take the vile, but guess what? Irene takes the vile for herself.

Clearly whoever she’s in cahoots with, badly wants that vile. So he chases her up to a recently new construction of a bridge that’s only halfway through construction, so she makes it up there to a dead end. Otherwise, she’ll fall into the ocean, just then Blackwood shows up and grabs the vile and knocks Irene down under the bridge.

Anyways come near the end of their battle, Sherlock notices a rope around Blackwood’s ankle and at the end of the rope is a heavy piece of metal, so he kicks the metal down off the bride and Blackwood falls on the ground and is about to be dragged into the ocean but he grabs ahold of this hole he falls into. Sherlock takes this moment to basically tell Blackwood there was never any magic, it was all tricks.

But wait how about that guy getting set on dire I bet yall asking? He was doused in gasoline, that wasn’t rain he was soaked in. Gasoline came out of a vent above the building he entered.

But wait how about the guy drowning in the tub by himself? He put a specific chemical into the tube.

He basically had the help of that small dude who made all these contraptions for him, and did all the testing and dirty work.

Anyways Sherlock ends his statement on “The Devil is due a soul I’d say” he then takes an axe and throws it at the rope, cutting Blackwood loose. Before he falls to a watery grave.

Sherlock tells Blackwood that everyone will see what he is a fraud, then he will be hung properly this time, Blackwood tells him it’s a long journey from here to the ropes, except unfortunately, he has no idea how close the ropes are.

Because just then this metal beam behind held up by a chain falls down right in front of him through the wooden floor, then the end of the Crane that was holding the metal beam gets torn off and crashes into the floor causing Lord Blackwood to fall down on some chains that are falling loose from their bolts.

The chains snap and he goes plunging down with the chains and one of the chains hangs Blackwood from the neck, yikes.

Oh and the crow that was there flies off as if the film is stating that the crow was Death and his soul was due to the reaper. This is why u don’t cheat death.

Anyways Sherlock goes and locates Irene who wakes up, he handcuffs her to the railing and she tells him that the person she works for is named Moriarty….he’s a monster and as much of a genius as Sherlock is. Anyways he gets up and leave and we cut to a shot of Blackwood “Hanging” there under the bridge as the camera pans out. Eh eh eh, yeah i know.

So the film ends with an officer coming into Sherlock’s house where Watson and his wife are at, why both them there? Easy because Sherlock hung himself. Here’s the clip

Turns out no he’s not dead, as Watson puts it he’s too full of himself. And it’s true, why is he hanging himself is because he was testing the vest/harness they put on Blackwood, hence why he didn’t die.

I do like that Sherlock during his explaining all this says my legs are going numb, so Mary says maybe we should cut him down. Which Watson says “No no no I would hate to cut him off midstream, carry on” Oh hahahah cut him off.

So anyway the officer comes in and tells them an officer was found dead this morning in the sewers, he was shot in the head with a small pistol.

Sherlock deducts it’s Professor Moriarty. He then ends by saying the case reopened, then we cut to end credits, and here are the end credits. It’s so dang catchy.