The plot of the film "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is based on the stories of A. Conan Doyle, an English writer of the 19th century, who invented the genius detective Sherlock Holmes. This is the second part, a sequel to the movie "Sherlock Holmes" directed by Guy Ritchie, which premiered in 2009.
The genre of the film is a detective thriller. As in the first part, Sherlock Holmes will face a desperate struggle with the genius of the underworld, clever, cunning and brave professor James Moriarty. This villain appears in the books of A. Conan-Doyle and, as a person equal to him in intelligence, is one of the few worthy opponents for Holmes. It is assumed that the plot of the story will serve as a mysterious, artfully presented in the form of suicide, the assassination of the Austrian crown prince. Only Sherlock Holmes realizes that this high-profile crime is just a thin thread in that huge web that Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) weaves in order to forever change the face of the world. The audience received a hint of Professor Moriarty's plans in the first film, but then it did not come to an obvious confrontation. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Wason, along with a girl named Sim (Noomi Rapace), await a deadly journey across Europe, from England to France, then to Germany and Switzerland.”, Which ends with the tragic death of the hero in the Swiss mountains in the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls. Conan Doyle was very tired of writing detective stories about Holmes, and the popularity of the hero, as luck would have it, was growing, the writer received mountains of letters asking for a continuation, and he decided to get rid of his creation by arranging a heroic death for him. However, soon, alas for the author and fortunately for the readers, Sherlock had to be resurrected, starring Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes), Jude Law (Dr. Watson), and Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, older brother Sherlock, who would be an even more genius detective … if he had enough energy to be anywhere outside his own home and his only club.
