Film review – Sherlock Holmes

This week, we are just watching the fascinating movie which is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is an action mystery film which has an interesting plot. Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of murder, which related to the occult rituals. In London, he and Dr. John Watson race to prevent the ritual murder of a girl by Lord Blackwood who has killed five people. Fortunately, they were able to arrest Blackwood and he was sentenced to death. But, before that, he wishes to meet with Holmes and warns Holmes those three more impending deaths that will cause great changes to the world. Then, Blackwood is hanged dead, declared by Dr. Watson. One day, Holmes receives a visit from Irene who is a professional thief and his former lover; ask him to find a missing man named Reordan. He felt so curious then he discreetly followed her. He found out that Reordan is the key of the Blackwood’s plans from the conversation between Irene and her secret employer.

A few days later, Blackwood’s tomb was destroyed from the inside out and Reordan was found dead in the Blackwood’s coffin. A groundskeeper said that he’d seen Blackwood walking from the tomb. From the autopsy of the Reordan body, it leads them to his house and discovers experiments attempting to merge science with magic. Then, he is taken to the Temple of the Four Orders, an occult-dabbling secret society. He was asked by the leaders to stop Blackwood but then they were killed through apparently magical means by the Blackwood. He plans to retake the United States, weakened by civil war.


Then, Holmes went hiding and studies about Blackwood’s rituals. He then rejoins Adler and Watson and sneak into the sewers beneath Parliament and found a machine, based on the Reordan’s experiments, designed to release a cyanide derivative into the Parliament chambers. They fight off Blackwood’s men and remove the cyanide containers from the machine. Adler grabs the cylinders and races away, pursued by Holmes. Blackwood has realised that his plan has failed but he manages to run away.


Holmes confronts Adler on top of the incomplete Tower Bridge but is interrupted by Blackwood. Holmes tricks him into becoming entangled in the ropes and chains, hanging over the Thames while Holmes recounts the technical trickery behind all the Blackwood’s supposed magic. A loose beam falls off the rafter supports, causing Blackwood to fall and die by hanging from the chains.