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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5038751" data-attributes="member: 6957">Not the worst Holmes movie that I have ever seen (I reserve that for The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) directed and starring Gene Wilder), and a trifle better than Without a Clue - which is to say, it was still really, really bad. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> It was a step up from the treatment of Wild, Wild West, and had decent sets. Downey as Holmes annoyed the Hell out of me, but Jude Law was better as Watson than I expected. Both could have worked on their diction, and taken a little note of Victorian sensibilities. I would give it a 2.5 out of the 10 above. But, I didn't have to pay for it, so I'll live. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Plot was not so much convoluted as lost, but Doyle was guilty of that too, more than once. What I really did not like was the interaction between Holmes and Watson - it grated like sand in the gear box.Brett remains the best Holmes, so far. If Jude Law had the diction a trifle closer he might be the best Watson, even though the movie itself is really not all that good. It did make me want to see a steampunk Sherlock movie sometime, though.The Auld Grump, for that matter, I would like to see the Holmes & Russel series by Laurie R. King become a movie series....</blockquote>

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