Sherlock Holmes

It is a best story.So, nobody knows anything. And nobody could have predicted that the star dominating the new century’s blockbuster entertainment would be Robert Downey Jr. His name was once a byword for squandered ability. Now, it means action, laughs, capers, fun. The details of his comeback have been long-detailed, and Jon Favreau deserves the credit for seeing this mercurial talent could be harnessed in a wham-bam family tentpole even as he approached middle age. But still, it’s quite another leap to imagine the rat-tat-tat, verbally diarrhoetic New Yorker as Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic deducer. Kudos too, then, to Guy Ritchie, who imagined him in the (metaphorical) Deerstalker – it proves an idea as ingenious as one England’s greatest detective may well himself have cooked up. To see him as Sherlock Holmes now feels natural, inevitable... Elementary, even