That was also an early taste of his MCU arrival as Doctor Strange — another brilliant, arrogant rogue usually at least two steps ahead of everyone else.
Here we have another brilliant, arrogant, witty rogue always at least two steps ahead of everyone else.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes was like a second helping of Tony Stark, whom RDJ introduced on screen the year before in 2008.
Sherlock Holmes came out in 2009 and, the very next year, Benedict Cumberbatch would become a household name — even with that name — thanks to the modern Sherlock TV series.