Having seen the first of the new Sherlock Holmes films last Christmas Eve, I wanted to watch the latest instalment to see if it matched up to it. It has the same actors playing the infamous Holmes and Watson (Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law) along with some new faces in the form of Noomi Rapace (who rose to fame in the original swedish Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy) as Madam Simza Heron and Stephen Fry as Sherlock's brother Mycroft.
The plot is quite complicated, and to be honest, I wasn't very awake when watching it, so missed a few important bits! The most basic outline, and this is cutting bits out, is that Holmes is investigating a series of crimes that he thinks are all linked, and planned by his nemesis James Moriarty. Holmes takes Watson out for his stag party, accompanied by Mycroft, where they rescue a gypsy from being killed by Moriarty, and after a meeting with the villain, Holmes stows away on the train that Watson and his new bride (the stunning Kelly Reilly) are on in order to protect them from him.
On his next mission to stop Moriarty, Holmes is captured, and it is revealed that he plans to start a war by creating a disagreement between world leaders at a peace summit, which will make him very rich due to shares he owns in arms and cotton. At the summit, the team realise that a set of twins Moriarty has been using, are in fact two different men that have been modified to look like each other, and one is Simza's brother (the reason why Moriarty wanted her dead). They figure out which one it is, and stop him from carrying out his plan, while Sherlock is playing chess with Moriarty.
After realising that a deal that the pair have made will mean Holmes losing, he begins a fight which leads to both the characters falling off the edge of a cliff into a waterfall, to their death. Of course, he isn't dead, but I'll leave the details a surprise at least!
This was better, in my opinion, than the first film, and that one was still good! It is definitely worth watching, but go when you are feeling full of concentration to make the most of it, unlike me!
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