With "Sherlock Holmes," Robert Downey Jr and director Guy Ritchie also recreate old London while reinventing Arthur Conan Doyle's brainy, monkish detective as an action hero, verbal quipster--and even a bit of a lover.
Downey's Holmes fights with fists, clubs, pistols and hammers, trades odd-couple banter with best buddy and roomate Watson (Jude Law), and shares romantic moments with the only woman (Rachel McAdams), who ever got the better of him.
It was a nice change of pace for Downey after he leaped to the box office A-list with last year's comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man."
"It was such a radical departure," Downey said. "A period piece. A very, very established kind of iconic image comes to mind when you think of Sherlock Holmes. Whereas Iron Man was a relatively unknown quote-unquote second tier superhero...until last year."
Downey's Holmes fights with fists, clubs, pistols and hammers, trades odd-couple banter with best buddy and roomate Watson (Jude Law), and shares romantic moments with the only woman (Rachel McAdams), who ever got the better of him.
It was a nice change of pace for Downey after he leaped to the box office A-list with last year's comic-book blockbuster "Iron Man."
"It was such a radical departure," Downey said. "A period piece. A very, very established kind of iconic image comes to mind when you think of Sherlock Holmes. Whereas Iron Man was a relatively unknown quote-unquote second tier superhero...until last year."
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