A Lemon Entry

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ★★

Carbon copy of the first film.

Same ideas.

Same problems.

But with more explosions.

The previous one just about got away with pissing all over everything that made the Holmes character great.

In this one, the nonsensical plot, complete waste of decent actors (obvious exception Jude Law - he isn't a decent actor) and pointless wandering over Europe is just a bit too irritating to ignore.

Don't Get Carter

John Carter ★★
Tarzans less famous literary brother.19th century ex-soldier gets faxed to Mars and can jump really high.

I've always had a fondness for the John Carter stories probably because they were some of the first books I borrowed from the library, the ten year old me attracted to them due to their lurid 70s covers of four armed green martians.
This effort is just too clean, bloodless and boring to do justice to the books.
It's probably the fact that it does derive it's story from a hundred year old book that's its biggest problem apart from the length and the stupefyingly wooden acting. All the ideas have been seen before.