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Holmes purists will be taken aback by how little the movie derives from the classic tales. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books, Irene Adler was the person to outfox Holmes, here she is the love of his life. In the books Holmes was an egghead, rarely used firearms and wasn't interested in women. Here, he is an action man who packs a revolver, gets shirtless in a bare-knuckle boxing pit, and has a definite eye for the ladies. Then there's Holmes sidekick, Dr. Watson (Law), he's as much of a roughneck crime fighter as Downey's Sherlock.

The story is also a departure. Sherlock's adversary this time out is the newly invented Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), expert of the dark arts who is conniving to bring down the British government and install a satanic new order. We find Holmes and Watson intervening in one of Blackwood's occult rituals. Blackwood is arrested, tried, and dispatched on the gallows. In a matter of mere movie moments, though, he's back from the dead and up to no good again.

Can Holmes somehow stop this supernatural blackguard? Can he lure Watson away from his own girlfriend for backup? And what about Irene Adler? She claims to want to help, but then we learn that she is actually in the employ of a sinister "professor" (Guess who, Holmes fans.) for a sequel set-up.