The score is 72 points, which is not high, because its self-righteous design pleases fans and stuns ordinary audiences.
1. About detective movies:
Compared with detective literature, detective movies have never become a genre. Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Jane Marple and other shining detective characters have far greater vitality in words. Stronger than the vividness in the image. And this powerful influence due to detective literature constitutes today's Sherlock complex.
In today's European and American movies, detectives are just a form of means, and there is no super IP (Downey's version of Sherlock Holmes can only be regarded as a medium-sized production).
2. Movie background: a transitional work between two seasons of the series.
The movie "Sherlock" is sandwiched between the aired third season and the unaired fourth season of the TV series. How to show Sherlock's state of mind of "seeing Moriarty's message again after experiencing Moriarty's death" is the key.
3. Story: Extra points for the first half and deduction for the second half.
The regular plot setting of the first few seasons of the TV series is to move the original story of Conan Doyle to modern society.
This special chapter uses "ingenious plot settings" to let the protagonists "travel" back to the Victorian era in the original book, while trying not to be separated from the previous season's plot story.
Reef Analysis:
1. The first half of the story of traveling through the past is very good, and the suspense setting is very reasonable, which makes people want to know the answer.
2. The second third is obsessed with time travel and never tires of it, jumping between ancient times and modern times many times, cutting the plot into pieces, and failing to tell the story of the ghost bride.
Many people don't understand it, but in fact the director abandoned the story and turned to stream of consciousness. In other words, he told the audience that the first two-thirds were Sherlock's "imagination after taking drugs" and his "dreams", and you were tricked.
In my opinion, the essence of this series of British dramas lies in the adaptation of "modern society" and the interpretation of "excellent reasoning", plus a little British humor and male-to-male love. However, the theatrical version chooses to promote weaknesses and avoid strengths, and there are too few "dry goods" for reasoning, which leads to mediocrity and stream of consciousness in the second half.
3. The battle of wits and courage on the edge of the waterfall at the end of the episode, arrogantly thought that the design is exquisite, showing the ultimate desire of Sherlock's inner subconscious. However, they did not discuss such high-level content as "to live or to die", but the two clown characters were fighting and kicking each other, and Sherlock's inner style was lowered a lot and LOW was a lot.
Fourth, visual effects: very British style, more delicate.
Visually, this film is quite attentive, and it costs a bit.
The first part, The Ghost Bride Story, like Tim Burton, uses low-light, dark-toned film footage with a Gothic horror vibe. The gloomy murder streets, the eerie manor, and the late-night maze look quite eerie. This paragraph, coupled with the British-style lens switching method, is quite successful visually.
Part II, Cult Movies (CULT). Retreat, go to the manor, cult feminist organization believers have a meeting, Moriarty appeared in a wedding dress, from a mystery drama to a cult movie. The focus has changed from case reasoning to rendering horror, bizarre and fantasy. Visually, it borrows the rendering method of Eyes Wide Shut, and it's not bad overall.
In the third part, Sherlock constantly travels through dreams, going back and forth between past and present dreams. The style of this piece is inconsistent, and the rhythm is fast and slow. I think the editing process of this piece is out of control and unbalanced by the director. directly affect the audience viewing.
5. Actors: Continue the performance mode of the TV series, with British accent, British humor and rotten selling as selling points. Does not expand.
6. Others:
1. The movie is adapted from the chapter "The Resurrection of the Terrorist Bride" in "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes".
2. The movie has a lot of settings to please fans and the original work, such as a sentence corresponds to the content of a certain episode, a song corresponds to the content of a certain episode, a prop corresponds to the original work, and so on. Make hardcore fans like it very much.
Summary: Where is the Christmas special in this film, it is clearly a Halloween special. It's a bit pretentious, but it's actually a work that dazzles the audience.
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