The plot of the film "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) is based on the stories of A. Conan-Doyle, an English writer of the XIX century who invented the genius detective Sherlock Holmes. This is the second part, the continuation of the film "Sherlock Holmes" directed by Guy Ritchie, which premiered in 2009.
The genre of the film is a detective action movie. As in the first part, Sherlock Holmes will face a desperate struggle with the genius of the underworld, the clever, cunning and brave professor James Moriarty. This villain appears in the books of A. Conan-Doyle and, as a person equal to him in intellect, is one of the few worthy opponents for Holmes. It is assumed that the story begins with a mysterious, skillfully presented in the form of suicide, the killing of the Austrian crown prince. Only Sherlock Holmes understands that this is a high-profile crime - just a thin thread in the huge web that Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) weaves in order to permanently change the face of the world. The audience received an allusion to the plans of Professor Moriarty in the first film, but then the matter did not reach a clear confrontation. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Vason, together with a girl named Sim (Noomi Rapas), are waiting for a deadly journey through Europe, from England to France, then to Germany and Switzerland. ", which ends with the tragic death of a hero in the Swiss mountains in the abyss of Reichenbach Falls. Conan Doyle was very tired of writing detectives about Holmes, and the hero’s popularity grew in spite of everything, the writer received mountains of letters asking for continuation, and he decided to get rid of his creation, arranging for him a heroic death. However, soon, alas for the author and fortunately for the readers, Sherlock had to be resurrected. The main roles are still Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes), Jude Law (Dr. Watson), as well as Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, older brother Sherlock, who would be an even more brilliant detective
.if he had enough energy to be at least somewhere besides his own house and the only club.
