Thursday, February 11, 2010

Review#1 Sherlock Holmes


Star Cast: Robert Downey Junior, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams
Duration: 2 hrs and 10 mins
Rating: 8.7/10
Review: Robert Downey Junior (Sherlock Holmes) is really awesome! Those of you who have witnessed "Iron Man" can easily relate Robert with his charming mannerism. The movie opens with a small action sequence involving Sherlock Holmes, his companion Watson and the villain Lord Blackwood. That really sets the pace of the movie and gives a nice impression of things to come. Watson, on the other hand is totally unlike his character as portrayed in the novel. He is almost as cool as Holmes in this movie, which is kind of entertaining. The movie revolves around Holmes and his intellectual attempts in solving the mystery of Blackwood's return from the dead. As Blackwood gets closer to ripping apart the order in the city of London through his dark persuasive manners, Holmes and his team face the music in an attempt to solve the mystery. Music plays a vital role in bringing out the true characters of a movie, and Hans Florian Zimmer has done yet another splendid job at composing the original sound tracks. In short, the movie has a nice blend of slap/stick/smart humor, sarcasm, intelligence, action-packed drama complemented with an amazing background score and is a definite watch!

"Rating" Mechanism

Hi Guys!

I shall be using a 10 point grading system to rate the movies I watch. You may refer to this post in case you want to know how I have calculated the final rating out of 10.

The 10 point scale translates into credit points lying in between 1 and 10, with 10 as the highest point. I am going to consider the following attributes while placing my final bet ;)

Direction [D]: 5 credits
Storyline [S]: 5 credits
Movie Pace [P]: 3 credits
Sound Track/Songs [ST]: 5 credits
Entertainment Value/Mood after Movie [M]: 2 credits

Final Rating = (D*r[D] + S*r[S] + P*r[P] + ST*r[ST] + M*r[M])/(5+5+3+5+2)

r[D]: Rating for Direction [1-10]
r[S]: Rating for Storyline [1-10]
r[P]: Rating for Pace [1-10]
r[ST]: Rating for Sound Track [1-10]
r[M]: Rating for Mood/Entertainment Value [1-10]


*For all you buffs who have been through the CGPA system at college: Yes! this is exactly how we used to get our CGPA.
*Others: Please don't bother! You will get to see a simple figure out of 10 :)