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Ambassador Standish, and Home Secretary Lord Coward - ask Holmes to stop Blackwood, a former member of the society and Sir Thomas' secret illegitimate son. The leaders - Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram, U.S.

After they survive a battle with Blackwood's men when they try to torch the lab, Holmes is taken to the Temple of the Four Orders, a secret magical fraternity with considerable political influence.

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Following a series of clues from the body, Holmes and Watson find Reordan's hideout and discover experiments attempting to merge science with magic. Reordan is found dead inside Blackwood's coffin.

Meanwhile, a sighting of a living Blackwood and his tomb destroyed from the inside out leads to belief Blackwood has risen from the grave. After her departure, Holmes follows her as she meets with her secret employer, deducing that the man is a professor and that he intimidates Adler. Holmes is visited by former adversary Irene Adler who asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. Blackwood, who claims to have supernatural powers, is sentenced to death by hanging but not before he requests to see Holmes, warning him of three more unstoppable deaths that will cause great changes to the world. Two months later, Watson, engaged to Mary Morstan, is moving out of 221B Baker Street he looks forward to not having to deal with Holmes' eccentricities. Inspector Lestrade and the police arrest Blackwood. John Watson prevent the ritualistic murder of a woman by Lord Henry Blackwood, who has killed five other young women. In 1890 London, private detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, was released on 16 December 2011, with a third film in the works to be directed by Dexter Fletcher. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Art Direction. Downey won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.

Sherlock Holmes received mostly positive critical reaction. The film was widely released in North America on 25 December 2009, and on 26 December 2009 in the UK, Ireland, the Pacific and the Atlantic. Rachel McAdams stars as Holmes' former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood. The film, set in 1890, follows eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson attempting to foil a mysticist's plot to gain control of Britain by seemingly supernatural means. The screenplay written by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Racing to stop Blackwood's deadly plot, Holmes and Watson plunge into a world of the dark arts and startling new technologies, where logic is sometimes the best crimefighting weapon… but where a good right hook will often do the job.Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. As he approaches his scheduled hanging, Blackwood-who has terrorized inmates and jailers alike with his seeming connection to dark and powerful forces-warns Holmes that death has no power over him and, in fact, his execution plays right into Blackwood's plans.Īnd when, by all indications, Blackwood makes good on his promise, his apparent resurrection panics London and confounds Scotland Yard. After a string of brutal, ritualistic murders, Holmes and Watson arrive just in time to save the latest victim and uncover the killer: the unrepentant Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). John Watson (Jude Law), his trusted ally, the renowned 'consulting detective' is unequaled in his pursuit of criminals of every stripe, whether relying on his singular powers of observation, his remarkable deductive skills, or the blunt force of his fists.īut now a storm is gathering over London, a threat unlike anything that Holmes has ever confronted.

#Sherlock holmes 1 movie#

Buddy Film Movie Groups Sherlock Holmes Synopsis Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) has made his reputation finding the truth at the heart of the most complex mysteries. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow, Silver Pictures, Wigram Productions, Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Dritte, Lin Pictures.