Downey shines amid Shadows

Reviewed this week: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Rating: 3/5. Romantics Anonymous. Directed by Jean-Pierre Améris. Rating: 2/5.

Noomi Rapace, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
Noomi Rapace, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

**Reviewed: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows**

Directed by Guy Ritchie

Nationwide, cert 12A

**Rating:** 3/5

The success of Guy Ritchie's 2009 Sherlock Holmes adaptation made a sequel inevitable. Anyone who saw the first film won't be surprised by the director's adherence to a winning formula for blockbuster action sequences, broad comedy and unsophisticated male bonding.

Set in 1891, **A ...