If you click on the special features of the just-released DVD of "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," you'll find a short tribute to something called "Holmesavision." It turns out to be the name given to the director Guy Ritchie's method of turning every quasi-Holmesian deduction or confrontation into an action sequence. Using variable speeds and quick cutting to illustrate Holmes's turns of mind twist by twist-usually before the Master commits himself to an action or solution, but sometimes long afterward-Ritchie makes sure he won't leave behind the slowest member of the audience while pretending that he's honoring his hero's greased-lightning illuminations. These sequences quickly become...
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