Rate Sherlock Holmes (2009)

[carrot]

I thought it was great. The plot wasn't anything too spectacular and Sherlock didn't really get to show off his deductive reasoning enough, but the leads were really good fun and it was certainly a darn sight more entertaining than most other Holmes films I've seen.

 

[Mark]

(Re: Jeremy Brett) I have heard this from more than one person already. I need to see this Holmes.

Netflix currently has almost all of the Jeremy Brett = Holmes work in the Instant View section. Dozens of Holmes hours to watch as the holidays wind down. Be sure to check the years and watch them in order, as they are largely in the order they were published as tales, IIRC, with the possible exceptions of the longer tales which are made more or less as television movies rather than as part of the various year long series. Also, even if you only buck up for a month, make sure to get a package that allows for unlimited Instant viewing.

1984 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1986 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987 - Sherlock Holmes The Sign of Four

1988 - Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles

1991 - The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

1992 - Sherlock Holmes The Master Blackmailer

1993 - Sherlock Holmes The Eligible Bachelor

1993 - Sherlock Holmes The Last Vampyre

1994 - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I liked this movie but it wasn't by any means "edge of your seat awesome". I absolutly love the setting and environment the characters are in. I think that the thing this movie lacked most was more action. I can't help but feel that there is a better cut of this movie on a studio hard drive somewhere. I really enjoyed where in the relationship we enter their world. We're not given an origin story but instead hit the ground running with the characters already established in history and mythos. I also enjoyed how this movie laid the path for a sequal without being too clumsy. But again, I just felt back by the slow pace and feel what this movie really needed was more action and more mystery and we'd have had an awesome movie.

It's also very possible that after seeing Robert Downy Jr in Iron Man that we're maybe spoiled or somehow expect something really awesome out of him. The potential was there but it just kinda missed, but only just.

While this isint a movie I'd say you MUST SEE, I will say that it IS a movie you SHOULD see on the big screen if you're gonna see it, if only for the awesome setting and enviroment. Then again if you've got 62" and blu-ray you might be fine.

 

[Glyfair]

But I enjoyed the movie as a whole, enough to want the DVD, and I thought the performances--and yes, the portrayal of Holmes--were the high points.

I heard from at least two different sources that they thought the beginning of the movie was too much like an episode of House. Given that the main inspiration for House was Holmes, I suppose that the comparison would be made.

Personally, I liked the characterizations. I did dislike the Holmes as a street fighter, but felt Downey and Law worked. The story was just too muddled.

 

[satori01]

honestly I found the portrayl of Holmes and Watson to be very true to the books, which means some variance with prior movies.

Holmes was:

1) an accomplished swordsman (stated but never shown in the books)
2) a trained pugulist (shown in several stories )
3) an accomplished practitioner of a Japanese martial art...the exact name escapes me at the moment (starts w/ a "B")

all of which implies some facility towards action.

I was also quite happy to see portrayed Holmes absolute mastery of disguise.

I was also happy to see that when Holmes was firing the pistorl in his rooms he spelled "VR" which is lifted straight from another story.

In fact the main flaw I found in terms of of the movie conforming to the books would be the fact the movie ignored that Watson met Mary during a case, so obviously Holmes and she would be acquainted.

As for Holmes dishelved appearance in the movie....Holmes is mentioned having stains under his fingers, and clearly his rooms are a mess, and I believe Watson actually refers to Holmes as being "Bohemian" which could easily imply a complete disregard for the fashion standards of the day.
The style imho was consistent with the books.
Practitioner

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

The style imho was consistent with the books.

Aye. The liberties taken were actually fairly few and could mostly be attributed to taking the pen out of the hands of Holmes' best friend and partner.

 

[Umbran]

It wasn't Holmes directly as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But, as I understand it, Sir Arthur was trying to write his day's version of pulp crime fiction, and as such, I found this to be a suitable updating to the current conception of same.

I had my expectations set kind of low - the commercials are all about the fight scenes. So, when the movie itself turned out to be more intelligent than expected, to have far better acting, and more chemistry between the characters, I was pleasantly surprised. I thoroughly enjoyed the film.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Saw it with my wife, loved it. My favourite Sherlock Holmes to date, with my favourite Watson to date too. Loved the chemistry between them. Loved the way they portrayed Holmes' quick thinking and deductive reasoning.

I was inordinately pleased that they didn't

Spoiler

feel the need to go all supernatural, and instead showed the conjuring tricks behind the magic

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Cheers

 

[Desdichado]

A bit shallow compared to the literary characters. As if Munsey instead of Doyle had written it, maybe. Still, tons of fun. 8.