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Sherlock - The Reichenbach Fall
episode 2.3
UK 2012
produced by Elaine Cameron, Mark Gatiss (executive), Steven Moffat (executive), Beryl Vertue (executive), Sue Vertue (executive), Rebecca Eaton (executive), Bethan Jones (executive) for Hartswood Films, Masterpiece Theatre, BBC (BBC Wales)
directed by Toby Haynes
starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs, Mark Gatiss, Loo Brealey, Katherine Parkinson, Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris, Tanya Moodie, Tony Pitts, Jaye Griffiths, Ian Hallard, Malcolm Rennie, Sydney Wade, Edward Holtom, Paul Leonard, Christopher Hunter, Tony Way, Lorraine Hilton, Samantha-Holly Bennett, Peter Basham, Rebecca Noble, Robert Benfield, Ifan Huw Dafydd, Michael Müller, Pano Masti, Douglas Wilmer
screenplay by Steve Thompson, based on characters by Arthur Conan Doyle, series developed by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, music by David Arnold, Michael Price
TV-series Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Super criminal Moriarty (Andrew Scott) commits three of the biggest
crimes of the UK at the same time, then has the audacity to let himself
get caught when robbing the crown jewels. He is tried, and the evidence is
damning, but he's acquitted by the jury and walks off scot-free. Sherlock
Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) puts two and two together and figures this
was never about the Crown Jewels or the Bank of England or whatever else
Moriarty tried to get his hands on, Moriarty only wanted to advertise his
business as a "consulting criminal" (the opposite of Holmes'
"consulting detective") - which means Moriarty must have a
master key for all computers ... doesn't it? Why then has Moriarty moved
no less than 5 assassins into Sherlock Holmes' immediate neighbourhood?
And why then do they everything in their power to save Sherlock's life and
are shot dead immediately afterwards? Meanwhile, Sherlock works on
another case, a kidnapping, and somehow the trail leads to himself.
Suddenly, the media turns on Sherlock, and he is suspected to having
committed all the crimes he has worked on himself ... and suddenly he
finds himself on the run. Only Watson (Martin Freeman) still believes in
him, but even his belief is tested when Moriarty is presented to him as an
unemployed actor only playing Sherlock's greatest foe - and more and more
evidence shows up to corroborate this theory. But Watson figures it must
have been Sherlock's brother Mycroft (Mark Gatiss) who has given Moriarty
all that information in exchange for some information relevant for the
gouvernment - and he's right, too. But Mycroft will never admit this
publicly, he'd rather see his brother tarred and feathered. Holmes in
the meantime meets with Moriarty for a showdown, where Moriarty tells
Holmes the whole computer master key ploy was just a big fat lie used as
bait, and he threatens to have Sherlock's three best and only friends -
Watson, Lestrade (Rupert Graves) and Ms Hudson (Una Stubbs) - killed
should Sherlock not kill himself. Sherlock thinks he's bluffing because as
long as Moriarty lives he figures he'll always have a way of calling his
killers back - upon which Moriarty shoots himself. Holmes calls Watson
to confess that he has really made up all the crimes he claimed to have
solved and that Moriarty only was his creation, then he throws himself off
a building to his certain death - leaving Watson a psychological wreck. Of
course, in the very last scene it's revealed that Sherlock's still alive
and well, he probably threw dead Moriarty off the building in his stead
... I'm sorry, but this is where Sherlock has
gone too far: The episode's story is entirely too far-fetched, hardly ever
makes any sense, is riddled with plotholes and to make matters worse is
entirely over-convoluted and over-populated. Also, unlike in earlier
episodes, the characters (and with them their actors) never really come
into their own, especially Moriarty (despite a nice performance by Andrew
Scott) remains disappointingly pale. Not really the season-finale one
would have hoped for, and even Sherlock's death fails to utterly convince.
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