百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[33]Sherlock Holmes 大偵探福爾摩斯

In 1890, London detective Sherlock Holmes（Robert Downey, Jr.）and his partner and flatmate Dr. John Watson（Jude Law）race to prevent the ritual murder of a woman by Lord Blackwood（Mark Strong）, who has killed five other young women similarly. They stop the murder before Inspector Lestrade（Eddie Marsan）and the police arrive to arrest Blackwood.
Three months later, Holmes' eccentric behavior again annoys Watson. While he enjoys their adventures together, Watson looks forward to marrying Mary Morstan（Kelly Reilly）and leaving 221B Baker Street. Meanwhile, Blackwood has been sentenced to death and requests to see Holmes in prison, where he warns of three more unstoppable deaths that will cause great changes to the world. Blackwood is subsequently hanged and pronounced dead by Watson. Three days later, Holmes is visited by Irene Adler（Rachel McAdams）, a professional thief and his former adversary, who asks him to find a missing man named Luke Reordan. After her departure, Holmes follows her as she meets with her secret employer, hidden in the shadows of a carriage. The concealed man states that Reordan is the key to Blackwood's plans. Holmes only learns that the man is a professor and that he intimidates Adler.
Blackwood's tomb is destroyed from the inside out. Reordan is found dead inside the coffin, and sightings of a living dead Blackwood, which has left a gravedigger in shock, cause public panic. Following a series of clues from the body, Holmes and Watson find Reordar's home and discover experiments attempting to merge science with magic. After they survive a battle with Blackwood's men, Holmes is taken to the Temple of the Four Orders, a secret magical organization. The leaders — Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram（James Fox）, U.S. Ambassador Standish（William Hope）, and Home Secretary Lord Coward（Hans Matheson）— ask Holmes to stop Blackwood, a former member of the society and, as Holmes deduces from physical similarities, Sir Thomas's son. Sir Thomas and Standish are later killed through apparently supernatural means by Blackwood, allowing him to control the Order. He plans to overthrow the British government, then conquer the United States and the world He lures Holmes to a warehouse where he finds Adler, chained to a hook, gagged, and heading towards a bandsaw, though he saves her in time. However, Watson is injured in a series of explosions set up by Blackwood. Lord Coward, secretly working with Blackwood, issues an arrest warrant for Holmes. Holmes goes into hiding and studies Blackwood's rituals, concluding that the next target is Parliament. Holmes tricks Coward into revealing that the plan is to kill its members. He, Adler and Watson discover a machine below the Palace of Westminster, based on Reordan's experiments, designed to release cyanide gas into the Parliament chambers, killing everyone but Blackwood and his supporters, to whom Blackwood slipped the antidote. Blackwood walks into Parliament and announces that soon all but his supporters will die. As Holmes and Watson battle Blackwood's men, Adler removes the cyanide containers from the machine and flees, pursued by Holmes. Blackwood and Coward realize their plan has failed; Coward is captured but Blackwood escapes. Holmes confronts Adler on top of the incomplete Tower Bridge, but is interrupted by Blackwood. As Holmes and Blackwood fight, Holmes tricks him into becoming entangled in the ropes and chains hanging over the Thames, while Holmes explains the technical trickery behind Blackwood's supposed magic. After a climatic fight, Blackwood, with a noose of chains around his neck, falls from the bridge and is hanged.
Adler explains that her employer is Professor Moriarty, warning that Moriarty is as intelligent as Holmes but far more devious. As Watson moves out of 221B, the police report to him and Holmes that a dead officer was found near Blackwood's device. Moriarty used the confrontations with Adler and Blackwood as a diversion while he took a key component, based on the new science of radio, from the machine, Holmes looks forward to the new case and new adversary.
1890年，倫敦偵探夏洛克·福爾摩斯（小羅伯特·唐尼飾）和他的搭檔兼室友約翰·華生博士（裘德·洛飾）趕去阻止羅德·布萊克伍德（馬克·斯特朗飾）在宗教儀式上謀殺一個(gè)女人。之前他用相似手法已經(jīng)殺了其他五個(gè)年輕女人。他們?cè)谔介L(zhǎng)萊斯特·雷德（埃迪·馬森飾）和警察來(lái)逮捕布萊克伍德之前，阻止了謀殺。
三個(gè)月后，福爾摩斯古怪的行為又惹惱了華生。盡管他享受他們?cè)谝黄饡r(shí)的冒險(xiǎn)，但華生期待娶馬麗·摩斯坦（凱利·雷莉飾），離開(kāi)貝克街221B。與此同時(shí)，布萊克伍德已經(jīng)被判死刑，請(qǐng)求在監(jiān)獄里和福爾摩斯見(jiàn)面。在那里，他警告說(shuō)還會(huì)有三個(gè)不可阻擋的死亡會(huì)引起世界巨大的變化。布萊克伍德后來(lái)被絞死，由華生宣告死亡。三天后，艾琳·阿德勒（瑞秋·麥克亞當(dāng)斯飾）造訪福爾摩斯，她是職業(yè)小偷，也是福爾摩斯從前的對(duì)手，她來(lái)請(qǐng)求他尋找一個(gè)叫盧克·里奧丹的失蹤的人。在她離開(kāi)之后，福爾摩斯社了她，在她和她的秘密雇主會(huì)面時(shí)，他隱藏在馬車(chē)的陰影里。那個(gè)隱藏在暗處的人說(shuō)里奧丹布萊克伍德計(jì)劃的關(guān)鍵。福爾摩斯只知道這人是個(gè)教授，他威脅阿德勒。
布萊克伍德的墳?zāi)贡粡氐灼茐牧?，里奧丹被發(fā)現(xiàn)死在棺材里面，看到死去的布萊克伍德復(fù)活，令掘墓人震驚，引起了公眾的恐慌。追隨從尸體上發(fā)現(xiàn)的一系列的線索，福爾摩斯和華生找到了里奧丹的家，發(fā)現(xiàn)了試圖要合并科學(xué)與魔法的試驗(yàn)。在和布萊克伍德的人交戰(zhàn)之后，他們幸存。福爾摩斯被帶到四令會(huì)（一個(gè)神奇的秘密組織）的寺院。首領(lǐng)們——首席大法官托馬斯·羅瑟拉姆（詹姆斯·?？怂癸棧┚羰?，美國(guó)大使斯坦迪什（威廉·霍普飾）和內(nèi)政大臣考沃德勛爵（漢斯·麥瑟遜飾），請(qǐng)求福爾摩斯阻止該組織前任成員布萊克伍德。根據(jù)福爾摩斯對(duì)面貌特征相似的推理，布萊克伍德正是托馬斯先生的兒子。托馬斯爵士和斯坦迪什后來(lái)被殺了，顯然是布萊克伍德用超自然的能力干的，為的是讓他來(lái)控制四令會(huì)。他計(jì)劃推翻英國(guó)政府，然后征服美國(guó)和世界。他把福爾摩斯引誘到他的倉(cāng)庫(kù)，在那里發(fā)現(xiàn)了阿德勒，她被鎖在一個(gè)鉤子上，堵住嘴，頭朝帶鋸床，但他及時(shí)救了她。然而華生在布萊克伍德制造的一系列爆炸事件中受傷?？嘉值聞拙敉低岛筒既R克伍德勾結(jié)在一起，對(duì)福爾摩斯發(fā)出逮捕令。 福爾摩斯隱藏起來(lái)，研究布萊克伍德弄出來(lái)的神秘儀式，認(rèn)為下一個(gè)目標(biāo)是議會(huì)。福爾摩斯騙考沃德揭露出下一個(gè)計(jì)劃是殺死議會(huì)成員。他、阿德勒和華生發(fā)現(xiàn)了威斯敏斯特宮地下的一臺(tái)機(jī)器，基于里奧丹的實(shí)驗(yàn)，用于在議會(huì)上釋放氰化物氣體，殺死除布萊克伍德和他的支持者之外的所有人，當(dāng)然，他已經(jīng)讓他的支持者服下了解藥。布萊克伍德走進(jìn)議會(huì)，宣布除了他的支持者，所有人很快都會(huì)死。福爾摩斯和華生與布萊克伍德的手下交戰(zhàn)時(shí)，阿德勒拿走了機(jī)器中的氰化物容器，然后逃走，這正是福爾摩斯想要的結(jié)果。布萊克伍德和考沃德意識(shí)到他們的計(jì)劃失敗了。考沃德被活捉，但布萊克伍德逃走了。在不完整的塔橋上，福爾摩斯和阿德勒對(duì)峙，但被布萊克伍德打斷了。福爾摩斯和布萊克伍德搏斗，福爾摩斯一邊巧妙地引誘布萊克伍德纏上懸在泰晤士河上的繩鏈，一邊解釋著布萊克伍德所謂魔法背后的花招伎倆。在一場(chǎng)風(fēng)云色變的搏斗之后，絞索鏈纏在布萊克伍德的脖子上。他從橋上掉下來(lái)，被絞死了。

阿德勒解釋，她的雇主是莫里亞蒂教授，警告說(shuō)莫里亞蒂和福爾摩斯一樣地聰明，但要狡猾得多。當(dāng)華生搬出221B時(shí)，警方向他和福爾摩斯報(bào)告，一名警官被發(fā)現(xiàn)死在布萊克伍德的設(shè)備附近。莫里亞蒂利用阿德勒和布萊克伍德的對(duì)抗分散了注意力，他從機(jī)器上拿走了一個(gè)基于無(wú)線電新科學(xué)基礎(chǔ)的關(guān)鍵組件。福爾摩斯期待著新的案子和新的對(duì)手。