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Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2010)

I'm not the Sherlock Holmes expert that most of the other posters are claiming to be. So maybe that's why I didn't enjoy the movie very much. I kept thinking - what does this have to do with Sherlock Holmes? It didn't fit the way that I pictured him at all. But I guess that's to be expected these days. This is another of those non-stop action from start to finish movies. So you didn't think that Sherlock Holmes was an action hero? I guess that I didn't either. He is in this movie. I was hoping for a more clever movie, not a blunt action piece. The performances are very good, so that's a saving grace. I also expected the abundance of flashbacks at the end to explain the whole thing. I don't find it suspenseful or even interesting when a movie explains something at the end, that the principal character knew all along, but never acted on or let on that he knew it. I like to add a logical score to the overall. This movie isn't horrible in that vein, but there are some whoppers. Nothing like crash landing on an arbitrary planet and running into Spock in a cave.