Today’s movie is a period mystery drama with a scene that happens on
November 19. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson stop Lord Blackwell
from completing a sixth ritual murder of young women. Three months later,
Holmes has become a recluse. Watson introduces him to Mary Morstan, his
fiancée. Blackwood meets with Holmes and warns of three more deaths that will
change the world. Blackwood is hung and declared dead by Dr. Watson. Holmes is
visited by his former foe and romantic interest, Irene Adler, who asks him to
find a missing dwarf, Luke Reordan. He learns she is working for a professor.
It is reported that Lord Blackwood has risen from the dead. Holmes and Watson find a lab where Reordan
was doing something for Blackwood. They have to fight off the attempt by
Blackwood’s men to destroy the lab, but this results in Holmes and Watson being
arrested. On November 19, 1891 [55:18 to 1:03:04] Lestrade gets Holmes out of
jail. Holmes is taken to a clandestine meeting with the heads of the Temple of
Four Orders, a secret magical society, headed by Sir Thomas Rotheram, the Lord
Chief Justice, Standish, the American Ambassador, and Lord Coward, the Home
Secretary. They ask him to stop Blackwood, a former member of their order and
Rotheram’s son. Lord Rotheram is killed and Holmes inspects a secret room he
discovers at the scene of the murder. Lord Coward gets Lord Blackwood elected
as head of the Temple after Standish is killed, apparently by magic. Holmes and
Watson go to a slaughterhouse and rescue Irene Adler, but explosions injure
Watson. Holmes studies the Temple’s rituals and concludes that Blackwood’s next
target is parliament. Holmes, Watson
and Irene slip into the sewers beneath Parliament, where Blackwood has set up a
machine to flood the chamber with cyanide gas, killing everyone except his
supporters to whom he has given the antidote. Irene flees to the incomplete
Tower Bridge. There Holmes confronts Blackwood and explains Blackwood’s
scientific tricks that he used to create apparent magic. Blackwood is killed
and Irene warns Holmes about Moriarity.
A different take on Conan Doyle’s master detective. This
version drifts into steampunk at times.
Holmes is very manic in this version and Watson wants to get away from
him.
Date given in film at 58:27
Producers - Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan
Lin
Awards - The film was nominated for the Best Original Score
and Best Art Direction Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards
Screenplay - Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and
Simon Kinberg
Director - Guy Ritchie
Runtime – 2 hours 8 minutes
Released – December 25, 2009
Starring –
Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law as Dr. John Watson
Mark Strong as Lord Henry Blackwood
Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler
Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan
Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade
Hans Matheson as Lord Coward
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014
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