The Game of Shadows

Sherlock has been increasingly crazy-seeming since the first film as he investigates Professor Moriarty and his nefarious scheme (which Sherlock doesn’t actually know, or even work out. He just keeps stumbling onto it in action-film style). Also, it happens to be the day before (and day of) Watson’s wedding. And instead of going on a honeymoon, Sherlock takes him away on a rollicking adventure to stop Moriarty and help avert a world war. If you didn’t know that Sherlock is supposed to be a detective, you would think he was a psychic. In the first film they showed him deducing things by slowing down time in what was essentially Sherlock-vision. This worked well, because we saw things for an instant as Sherlock sees them all the time – seeing all the details at every moment.In this film, he doesn’t do the voice-over where he works out the details. It jumps straight to the part where he fast-forwards through the fight without explaining how he got there. It gets especially stupid when, during one fast-forward of a fight with Moriarty, Moriarty’s voice-over interrupts. What? Why is Moriarty interrupting Sherlock’s prediction? Are they having some sort of psychic battle now?