Early Review: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is a dull, disappointing, and misguided sequel
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Film Rating: C–
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is everything we feared the first “Sherlock Holmes” would be before it was released in 2009: loud, obnoxious, overblown, action-riddled, overtly comedic, disrespectful to the source material, and above all, stupid in ways only a pandering American production could be. For me, it is by far the greatest…
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