![]() Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as an excellent combatant with a tachypsychic ability to virtually meditate in the midst of chaos. ![]() All are expertly choreographed by a team led by fight director Richard Ryan (see our exclusive interview with Richard here). Game of Shadows offers no less than five significant hand-to-hand fight sequences, three being especially elaborate. For full disclosure, the Bartitsu Society donated copies of both volumes of the Bartitsu Compendium to the production team for the 2009 movie. Since many other critics have already offered thorough reviews of the film as a whole, and since this is, this commentary will focus specifically on the movie’s martial arts content Holmes’ fictional “baritsu” fighting style being taken as an analogue of E.W. ![]() The plot is very loosely based on events described (and, significantly, implied) in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story The Final Problem, in which Sherlock Holmes famously confronts his arch-nemesis, the diabolical criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty.
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