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Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2009)

If you like Holmes the way Conan-Doyle wrote him and expect a story along those lines, stay away from this movie. The movie contains characters with names that are familiar. But they are not the same characters. (This may count as a spoiler...) When Watson introduced Mary Morstan to Holmes, who had no idea who she was.... Well, that ended any pretense that the characters really were Holmes and Watson (and Mary Morstan or Irene Adler or ...)
That said, once I got over the false advertising of the character's names.... it was a fairly decent whodunit with a few interesting plot turns. It was perfect as a "get out of the house on a holiday weekend night" kind of movie.