After meeting up with his brother Mycroft at Watson's bachelor party, Holmes meets with Gypsy fortune-teller Simza, the intended recipient of the letter he took from Adler, sent by her brother Rene. Holmes defeats an assassin sent to kill Simza, but she flees before Holmes can interrogate her. Voicing his respect for Holmes' perseverance, Moriarty informs Holmes that he murdered Adler. Holmes vengefully vows to defeat him and subtly requests Watson and Mary be left alone now that Watson is no longer working with him, but Moriarty indicates he will kill them anyway.
Moriarty's men attack Watson and Mary on a train to their honeymoon. Holmes, having followed the pair to protect them, throws Mary from the train into a river below where she is rescued by Mycroft. When she is found, Holmes tells Simza that she has been targeted because Rene is working for Moriarty and may have told her about his plans.
Simza takes the pair to the headquarters of an anarchist group to which she and Rene had formerly belonged. They learn that the anarchists have been forced to plant bombs for Moriarty. The trio follows Holmes' deduction that the bomb is in the Paris Opera. However, Holmes realizes too late that he has been tricked and that the bomb is in a nearby hotel; the bomb kills a number of assembled businessmen.
Holmes discovers that the bomb was a cover for the specific assassination of Alfred Meinhard, one of the attendees, by Moriarty's henchman, Sebastian Moran.
Meinhard's death grants Moriarty ownership of Meinhard's arms factory in Germany. Holmes, Watson, and Simza travel there, following clues in Rene's letters. At the factory, Moriarty captures, interrogates, and tortures Holmes while Watson fights Moran. Holmes spells out Moriarty's plot, revealing that the Professor secretly acquired shares in multiple war profiteering companies using various pseudonyms to conceal his identity and intends to instigate a world war to make himself a fortune.
Meanwhile, Watson uses the cannon he had been hiding behind to destroy the watchtower in which Moran is concealed. The structure collapses into the warehouse where Moriarty is holding Holmes captive. Watson, Simza, and an injured Holmes reunite and escape aboard a moving train. Holmes deduces that Moriarty's final target will be a peace summit in Switzerland, creating an international incident.
At the summit, Holmes deduces that Rene is the assassin and that he is disguised as one of the ambassadors, having been given radical reconstructive surgery by Hoffmanstahl.
Holmes and Moriarty, who is also in attendance, retreat upon a balcony to discuss their competing plans over a game of chess. Watson and Simza find Rene and stop his assassination attempt, but Rene is discreetly killed by Moran. Despite his war being averted, Moriarty remains confident in his victory, warning Holmes that the nations of Europe will inevitably go to war with one another regardless of Moriarty's manipulations.
Holmes then reveals that, while being tortured by Moriarty, he replaced the professor's personal diary that contained all his plans and financing with a duplicate. The original was sent to Mary in London, who decrypted the code using a book that Holmes had noticed in Moriarty's office during their first meeting, before passing the information to Inspector Lestrade, who seizes Moriarty's assets and donates his fortune to anti-war charities. After the success of the film Sherlock Holmes , a sequel was fast-tracked by Warner Bros.
McAdams said, "If I do, it won't be a very big thing. It's not a lead part". In October , Downey, Jr. In early February , principal photography moved for two days to Strasbourg, France. Shooting took place on, around, and inside Strasbourg Cathedral.
The White Cliffs of Dover can also be seen in the background of the scene where Watson and Sherlock travel by boat to France. The score was composed by Hans Zimmer. Zimmer and his core musicians all with National Democratic Institute members, visited seven Roma villages to learn about the Roma people and "listen to as many musicians as we could. Besides discovering the wonderful cultural music, Zimmer also said he had never seen such poverty in Central Europe.
A portion of proceeds from the soundtrack will help the Roma pay for necessities like water, heating and bus fare to get their children to school.
The film received moderately positive reviews from critics. The consensus is " Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a good yarn thanks to its well-matched leading men but overall stumbles duplicating the well-oiled thrills of the original".
Roger Ebert, who gave the first film three stars, was even more positive in his review for A Game of Shadows , awarding it three-and-a-half stars and calling it "high-caliber entertainment" that "add[s] a degree of refinement and invention" to the formula, and that the "writers…wisely devote some of their best scenes to one-on-ones between Holmes and Moriarty.
Club felt that the film "aims lower than its predecessor's modest ambition, and still misses the mark. Warner Bros. Pictures announced in October that the first draft for Sherlock Holmes 3 is being produced with screenwriter Drew Pearce writing the script; [47] he was replaced by Justin Haythe. I think they want to! Moriarty silently threatens Holmes at gunpoint, driving the detective away.
Adler soon becomes overwhelmed by her mission and attempts to flee via train, but Moriarty ominously confronts her aboard the boxcar and coerces further service from her in exchange for Holmes' life. After Blackwood's plan goes awry and he is killed, Moriarty makes his move by impersonating a police officer, he approaches the scene of the crime where the device has been located, murdering the stationed officer with his pistol and leaving with the radio receiver in tow.
During the film, Sherlock Holmes comes into conflict with Moriarty after the latter poisons Irene Adler to death, deeming her expendable after she succumbs to her feelings for Holmes. During his inquiries into Moriarty's criminal activities, Holmes learns that the professor had managed to "buy, scheme or murder" his way into various businesses, including arms and chemical weaponry, without leaving any criminal evidence that could be traced back to him.
In order to create a demand for his vast supply of weaponry, Moriarty attempts to provoke a world war using bombs and by sending an assassin into a crucial conference using an early form of plastic surgery. With Dr. John Watson having deduced his assassin's identity in Switzerland while Moriarty is occupied in a chess game with Holmes, Moriaty's plan to ignite the war seems to be thwarted.
However, Moriaty states an undeniable truth is that no matter what, a world war is inevitable due to human's thrist for conflict, which is very true since World War 1 is gonna happens one way or another.
As the result, the failed assassination is only a temporary setback to his plan and he just seemingly waits until the war starts and profit from it. Holmes then reveals to Moriarty that he had managed to switch the professor's personal diary containing all the information on his empire and investments with a replica.
Having cracked the code needed to decipher his handwriting, Holmes had sent the diary back to London for his colleagues to work on, reducing Moriarty's enormous fortune to practically nothing.
Moriaty tried to get into his pocket to get his diary only to realize his diary is now a replica with Holmes's mocking picture depicting a fisherman being swallowed by a shank with a word Be careful what you fish for. Infuriated by having lost the fortune he worked so hard to get, Moriarty responds with evidently seething anger but still remaining calm by telling Holmes that he will develop the most excruciatingly painful and slow ways to kill both Watson and his wife in retaliation for what Holmes has done to him and soon he and Holmes calculate a potentially oncoming violent altercation.
Moriaty proves to be able to predict accurately the scenario of the fight as well as Sherlock could and Sherlock realizes that he would inevitably lose a fight with Moriaty due to an injury in his shoulder sustained during his recent torture by Moriarty.
Wanting to protect Watson from Moriarty's revenge, Holmes instead grapples Moriarty over the balcony and they both tumble into the Reichenbach Falls, while a horrified Watson watches from afar. Holmes is later shown to have survived the fall, presumably due to having taken his brother Mycroft's oxygen breathing apparatus with him, while Moriarty is most likely dead.
However, Sherlock Holmes has recently announced a third film, implying that Moriarty could return. When Sherlock Holmes first happens across Moriarty, the professor is secluded in shadows, but can be seen wearing fine leather gloves, a Cambridge PhD hood and a top hat. He is armed with a spring-activated, small caliber pistol hidden up his right sleeve.
Suddenly, Holmes becomes unconscious and Watson tries desperately to save him. Remembering that Holmes had given him a wedding present earlier to start the heart again, Watson uses it to start Holmes' heart again. Holmes realizes that Moriarty's final target will be a peace summit in Switzerland , creating an international incident. Watson and Simza search for signs of the assassin while Holmes and Moriarty, who is also in attendance, retreat outside to discuss their competing plans.
Outside, Holmes reveals that he previously replaced Moriarty's personal diary that contained all his plans and financing with a duplicate. The original was sent to Mary in London who decrypted the code using a book that Holmes had noticed in Moriarty's office during their first meeting.
Mary passes the information to Inspector Lestrade Eddie Marsan who seizes the bulk of Moriarty's assets, financially crippling him. Holmes and Moriarty anticipate an impending physical confrontation that both realise Moriarty would win, due to Holmes' injured shoulder.
Holmes instead grapples Moriarty and forces them both over the balcony and into the Reichenbach Falls below. No bodies are found and they are both declared dead.
Following Holmes' memorial , Watson and Mary prepare to have their belated honeymoon when Watson, who is now writing the last few lines for " The Adventure of the Final Problem ", receives a package containing a breathing device of Mycroft's that Holmes had noticed before the summit.
Realizing that Holmes is still alive, Watson leaves his office to find the delivery man. Holmes, having concealed himself in Watson's office, reads a fresh eulogy on Watson's typewriter and adds a question mark after the words "The End". After the success of Sherlock Holmes film and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , Warner Brothers gave the go-ahead to produce a third instalment, hiring writer Drew Pearce — who worked on the other two films — to write the script, [2] with producer Dan Lin saying in December , that the film was "in development".
However, work has been slow, with Lin also saying that they were, "waiting for Downey to finish [Iron Man 3] and to get a script from Drew". I don't think it'll be this year. But that's alright, the interest is still there". In May Warner Bros. Village Roadshow is also returning as co-producer.
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