Didn't completely work but was fun, I'll watch Downey watching TV at this point

EDIT: As I said, it was a fun flick that didn't completely work... for one thing, the central mystery is less a traditional Holmes whodunit (or at least as I remember them being) than it was a whydunit, so the big reveal of how everything was done was cool in one sense, as it showed how brilliant Holmes indeed was, but it also felt like a cheat, a way for the filmmakers to bring Holmes up-to-date... Mark Strong was cool as the villain of the piece, and the way he pulled everything off was interesting (and should make quite a few, uh, attentive posters in General Discussion mad)...

I also thought Rachel McAdams could have been in a different movie, as she was almost a second thought and played the backseat to Downey and Jude Law a great deal... and of course, this makes some kind of sense in the light of Downey playfully hinting that Holmes and Watson were gay during the promotion of the movie... but their comedic banter was solid and amusing... the movie could have also stood to have been about 10 minutes shorter, as I didn't think we needed the climatic fight...

Now, as for the controversial ranking question, I still think Lock Stock is Guy's best movie, and this probably being his third best behind the criminally hated on RocknRolla... hope that answers that question...

If you've got nothing else poppin' on Christmas and have already seen Avatar (or if it's sold out), I say check it out...

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