Mini-Review: It's hard to express just how well this movie works. How well it's constructed. How great the script is. How amazingly funny it is. Sure, it veers close to going off the rails at times, but in the exact right way. All of the actors in this are firing at all cylinders, and all told it's amazingly smart, if not incredibly silly at times.

Mini-Review: The movie has an absolutely amazing first act that does a great job of building to the "big" moment of the film, but after it hits its high note the movie becomes much less engaging. The problem is not the lack of a resolution, I think the issue is that the story follows threads that I don't think are so engaging while not paying more time to the things that would be. Ultimately, much like the characters in the film, once Miranda goes, you kind of wish she'd come back.

Mini-Review: One feels that this movie shouldn't be as beautiful as it is. It's an uncomfortable subject that leads to an even more unfortunate death, and yet without showing the act, without getting explicit the movie has this great sadness and some beautiful images. I would love to see what these filmmakers did with a different subject matter because some of the imagery is so striking I kind of want to get lost in it it, especially the night time woods stuff.

Mini-Review: I can see why the studio might have thought this was a good idea, but ultimately I feel this is a pretty forgettable action flick. RDJ is good but not as interesting as I would have liked. Still, the real problem with the flick start at the script stage. Making a Holmes movie where the villain has "magical" powers is just kind of silly because you know that eventually it's going to be revealed to be something, so why waste the audiences time?

Mini-Review: After the movie was over I couldn't help feeling that there were two good ideas here for a movie but only one kind of mediocre film in the end. I think either idea would make a great movie, but having them stuck together as this weird frankenstein monster did very very little for me. While the effects work was certainly good and the creature design interesting, the plot issues just really bothered me. The ending is pretty hilarious though.