Should i watch mission impossible or sherlock holmes

Wanna know why? Paramount tells me that, because of strong early sales for midnight shows, IMAX asked to open Thursday evening to get the word of mouth started. To say that Warner Bros was annoyed is an understatement. But there is a Dark Knight Rises teaser playing with Sherlock 2. The Tom Cruise-Jeremy Renner starrer directed by Brad Bird M:I4 expands this coming week — and then Hollywood will find out how the reformulated franchise fares on its own.

Specialty Box Office: December In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Guy Ritchie returns to his favorite stylistic shape, the belligerent mind that folds onto itself. The mind of course belongs to Holmes Robert Downey Jr. By contrast, his Mabusean adversary, Moriarty Jared Harris , is scholarly, Teutonic, and with only an occasional twitch to hint at the mania twisting under the tuxedo.

However, where Cronenberg stages the encounters between Jung and Freud as sardonic volleys of discipline and turmoil, Ritchie is all too happy to choreograph the climatic chess showdown between Holmes and Moriarty as a literal pugilistic bout.

With their eccentric and lousy ideas, the Sherlock Holmes films are easily identifiable as Guy Ritchie films. With the Mission: Impossible franchise—a more established, hence more inflexible, brand name—authorship is a muddier matter.

Broccoli and Harry Saltzman remain the producers-auteurs behind most of the James Bond films. Of the Pixar animators, Bird has always been the one most interested in quicksilver dimensionality. Moriarty kills by proxy through various henchmen, such a gentleman is he. The movie is littered with the carcasses of those who have displeased him, gotten in his way, or cease to be of use to him. Sherlock has wind of his machinations, but Moriarty is constantly one step ahead of him. The thin easy to follow plot has our detective team chasing down Moriarty and his henchmen while attempting to stop the start of war, with the help of gypsy Madam Simza Heron, played by the underutilized Noomi Rapace , who is searching for the brother that has gone missing and is suspected to be involved in Moriarty's plot.

Stephen Fry, who is always a pleasure to see featured onscreen, plays Sherlock's equally quirky brother Mycroft. The movie isn't perfect. Someone needs to outlaw the leeching of color in film. We know it's the dirty old late 's, we won't forget, now use a wider palate. The script feels a bit like action sequences strung together. However, the brash charisma of Downy Jr. No question in this bombastic sequel there's a lot of noise.

The theatre-shaking explosions come often and can be jarring. There's also much slow motion fighting. In these sequences we see Holmes's brain working and experience the speed of his deductive reasoning, which, of course, is his superpower.

These slow motion run throughs as he is imagining how the course of a brawl might go, and the subsequent real time sequences, offer a unique, updated way of showing his intellect manifesting physically. This Holmes is a badass in part because he can use the same genius he uses to solve crimes to throw punches.

The last part of the film is by far the best, in which the showdown between Holmes and Moriarty takes place. They are so very polite and articulate as they discuss killing each other. It is a match of wits that culminates in an exciting visual climax and gasp worthy plot twist. Overall, this sequel, that has zero self importance, delivers dynamic performances, a great score by Hans Zimmer, and globetrotting on an epic scale, is a great way to distract and immerse yourself into detective fantasy.

It's the holidays. And if you feel stressed, Cinema Siren wants you to escape. Why don't you run away to the movies? The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch? Register for a user account. Leslie Combemale , Community Contributor. Posted Sat, Dec 17, at am ET. Find out what's happening in Kingstowne-Rose Hill with free, real-time updates from Patch.

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