Sherlock Holmes is a British-American action film based on a fictional detective created by Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and it was released in December 2009. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, but it lost both of them. First one, Best Original Score it lost to “Up” and other one to “Avatar”.A sequel of the movie, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was released two years later on 16^th December. The sequel was also directed by Guy Ritchie.

American actor Robert Downey Jr. won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his brilliant performance as Sherlock Holmes. Downey fits to his role almost perfectly and gives to Holmes nice, finished touch. British actor and director Jude Law portray Holmes’ friend and assistant Dr. Watson. I think he is right person to the role of Watson and managed it very well. In action movies must be an evil person too, of course. This part has been given to Mark Strong who acts Holmes’ enemy Lord Blackwood.

Incidents of the movie are placed in London in 1891. Sherlock Holmes stops the ritual murder by Lord Blackwood, who get arrested and hanged. Blackwood rises from the death and tries to overthrow the British government with black magic and cheating.  Holmes finds out his plan and prevents it saving the members of the parliament. In the end of the movie Holmes gives away secrets of Blackwood’s magic.

I think entirety of the film is very successful. Director Guy Ritchie changed old, classic picture of Sherlock Holmes as a gentleman to modern action hero with a phenomenal ability to draw conclusions. I liked specially the boxing scene where Holmes’ line of thoughts and conclusions are showed before real action. In my opinion, whole movie is very successful and I recommend it to everybody who likes good action movies.