You won't find much food for thought in the new Sherlock Holmes film, but is that any surprise? Instead, A Game of Shadows offers more zany action and amusing banter:
- "I could not entirely resist the idiotic allure of Game of Shadows," writes Andrew O'Hehir in Salon. The series "has loosed the most unhinged, unkempt and unclean version of Conan Doyle’s legendary detective ever seen." But "even at his dumbest," Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes is "semi-irresistible."