Few Touch Ups, But Nothing New

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2010)

They certainly did try to liven up Holmes by putting Guy Ritchie in charge and casting Robert Downey Jr, but there was no real differences to what we've grown up with: Holmes is still able to deduce in a glance what would take the cast of CSI a whole episode, he's still a man who craves stimulation to keep his mind on edge, and he can be somewhat insufferable at times. Sure, changing his wardrobe and giving him some brawling skill made him more accessible to modern audiences, but they really didn't do anything groundbreaking, like they did with James Bond in "Casino Royale".
But it certainly wasn't from lack of opportunity; at least twice they seemingly "killed" the few people he cared about, only to reveal a little later that the injuries weren't as bad as they appeared or there was a convenient platform that cut short their apparent fall to doom. Now THAT would have been something new for Holmes; how to deal with the loss of those people who were able to put up with him. How would he have reacted? But, unfortunately, that seemed to be too much of a risk to take.