The Great Game (2010)

Directed by

Paul McGuigan

Genre

crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are forced by a bomber to solve a series of crimes under tight deadlines or a hostage will be killed. The case leads to a confrontation with the criminal mastermind Jim Moriarty.

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What happens

"The Great Game" is the third and final episode of the first series of the television series Sherlock. It was first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 8 August 2010. It was written by Mark Gatiss and directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode follows Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) as they race to solve a series of seemingly unrelated cases presented by a mysterious bomber. If they fail to solve the case in the time specified by the bomber, he will kill the hostage he is holding. After four such cases, the episode ends in a standoff between Holmes and the bomber, who it turns out is Jim Moriarty, the "consulting criminal" and the main antagonist for the rest of the series. The standoff is left as a cliffhanger until Season 2. Like its predecessors, the episode features numerous references to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Critical reception of "The Great Game" was highly positive, being praised for its complex and gripping plot, and its unusual and original portrayal of Moriarty. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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