![]() ![]() The stylization is effective and the production design is visually engaging. As with the original, due to the dark nature of the cinematography, viewing is optimized in a darkened environment, preferably a black room with a display capable of good black-level reproduction. Resolution is generally well defined, with excellent detail exhibited in close-ups of facial features, hair, clothing, and object texture. Yet, unlike the original, the picture exhibits an overall brighter presence throughout. Philippe Rousselot's cinematography creates dismal, drab, overcast visuals that project the sense of the time period. No bright colors are evident, with even reds deep and subdued. Color filtering emphasizes browns, grays, and blues, and otherwise earthy dark and sepia tones. Fleshtones are skewed in brownish hues with a desaturated appearance. The imagery appears dense with at times compressed HDR contrast that results in either crushed blacks and shadows exhibiting poor or no delineation or deep satisfying black levels and shadow delineation. The photography of the locations and sets is spectacular and fill the screen with image complexity. The picture is stylized with a filtered effect to suggest the late 19th Century Victorian England (1891) setting. While sharing some of the visual qualities of "Sherlock Holmes," this is a far superior picture. The 2.40:1 2160p HEVC/H.265 Ultra HD HDR10/Dolby Vision picture, reviewed on a Sony Bravia Z9D 4K Ultra HD HDR display, was photographed on Kodak Vision3 film stock in Super 35 using the Arriflex 235, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2 and Phantom HD camera systems and sourced from a 4K master Digital Intermediate format. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry" (HD 05:18), "Meet Mycroff Holmes" (HD 05:30), "Sherlock Holmes: Under the Gypsy Spell" (HD 04:02), "Guy Ritchie's Well-Oiled Machine" (HD 03:04), and "Holmes Without Borders: (HD 05:51) A "Game Of Shadows" Movie App for a mobile device or tablet and an UltraViolet digital copy. Focus Points featurettes: "Holmesavision On Sateroids" (HD 04:02), "Moriarty's Master Plan Unleashed" (HD 07:09), "Sherlock Holmes And Dr. ![]() Special features include the Bonus View Maximum Movie Mode: "Inside of Sherlock Holmes" hosted by Robert Downey, Jr. If he succeeds, it will not only bring him immense wealth and power but also will alter the course of history. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead and moving perilously close to completing his ominous plan. Holmes' investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson (Law) out of London to France, Germany, and finally Switzerland. At its center sits a singularly sinister spider: Moriarty (Harris). In "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows," around the globe headlines break the news: a scandal takes down an Indian cotton tycoon: a Chinese opium trader dies of an apparent overdose bombings in Strasbourg and Vienna the death of an American steel magnate.no one sees the connective thread between these seemingly random events-no one that is, except the great Sherlock Holmes (Downey Jr.), who has discerned a deliberate web of death and destruction. ![]()
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