The Best Ever Movie Fight Scenes - Sherlock Holmes

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The bare-knuckle brawl Robert Downey Junior engages in with a street-fighter is one of this 2009 movie’s highlights and it is right at the start. The grittiness and squalor of the arena captures the feel of crime-torn London, and Holmes’s drug-addled neurosis perfectly. The Irish jig music (by The Dubliners) gives a sense of humour to a dark struggle in which Holmes is initially pulverized. His stance changes when he sees Irene Adler and methodically thinks through every move he is about to make to destroy his formidable opponent, down to the last broken rib and jaw dislocation. Then he just does exactly what he described to himself, bringing his deductive sharp mind to the fore in a brutal scrap, in the ultimate balance of brawn with brains. Somehow the rest of the film never recaptures the magic of this early event. Youtube – the fight scene from Sherlock Holmes Arthur Chappell