New SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS Trailer Is Packed To The Gills With Goodness

Guy Ritchie clearly understands the first rule of sequels: Do what worked the first time and do it more. It would appear he has done just that with Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows. Is this going to be Holmes as written on the page? Oh, hell no. But will it be big, flashy fun? You betcha.

The second trailer for Ritchie's second Holmes adventure has just arrived and every last moment of it positively screams 'blockbuster'. Newcomers Noomi Rapace and Jared Harris look fabulous, there's a solid balance between action and comedy and the action ... well, there are a few shots in there that are literally jaw dropping. God bless the Phantom camera or whatever it was they used to accomplish the super slow motion forest chase sequence.

Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room...until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large--Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris)--and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder--a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty. Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him. The investigation becomes ever more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction--all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.

Apple have the trailer premiere so head on over and check it out.