Overview
Genre
Adventure, Drama, ComedyRelease Date
December 16, 2011MPAA Rating
PG-13Duration
128 min.Studio
Warner Bros. PicturesOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Guy RitchieProducer
Joel Silver, Susan Levin, Lionel Wigram, Dan LinScreenwriter
Kieran Mulroney, Michele MulroneyStarring
- Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
- Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler
- Jude Law as Dr. John Watson
- Noomi Rapace as Sim
- Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes
- Jared Harris as Professor Moriaty
- Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan
- Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade
- Gilles Lellouche
- Geraldine James
- William Houston
Story
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large-Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)-and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder-a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.
Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.
The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction-all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.
