If you’re a fan of Sherlock Holmes, you may be disappointed. If you’re a fan of Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and quick moving scenes, you’re due to watch the newest installment of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

In this sequel, Holmes is up against his cunning and (perhaps more brilliant) adversary, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris, Mr. Deeds) and it’s a battle of wits. Holmes is delegated to the case of a dead prince, which seems to be suicide but with one look Holmes deduces far more than seems possible and is on the job, though the job is not really conveyed to the audience.

On the night of Watson’s bachelor party, we see Sherlock creeping about the club on the search. He finds Sim, a Gypsy fortune-teller (Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), whom he thinks will lead him further into the mystery. In the shadows Professor Moriarty, waits to thwart his nemesis Sherlock Holmes for the final time.

Travelling all across Europe, Watson, Holmes and Sim search for Sim’s brother, whom they believe is unwillingly helping Moriarty to complete his evil plot.

In Switzerland the two masterminds battle, first with a chess game and finally with a mind-boggling fight of supernatural predictions and slow motion punches.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows makes a wonderful action movie. However, it lacks the mysterious aspect that lovers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories possess. It becomes almost impossible to try a “Solve It Yourself” approach.

We, the audience, are not allowed entrance into Holmes’s mind save on some occasions and then only for the sake of his seemingly psychic battle tactics.

And if you’re hoping to see Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, you’ll be pleased for the first six minutes of the film and the first six only, as her character (temporarily?) leaves the plot.

However, in her stead we are given Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft (Stephen Fry) who shows Sherlock as a baby by making fun of him and calling him “Shirley.”

It’s a fun-filled journey of shooting and running, slow motion and explosions. Robert Downey Jr. does not fail to bring entertaining action and humor to the screen as Sherlock Holmes. I give this movie three and a half stars out of five.