Cast in reverse for some reason

Rating: Null/10 (5 January 2010)

This film was, in my opinion, a perfect example of casting gone bad...Jude Law would have made an excellent Sherlock Holmes and Robert Downie Jr. would have made an excellent Dr. Watson...alas, they did it backwards, and the results are a funny Sherlock and a serious Dr. Watson. In short, it is quite the bastardization of the original concept, which is an excellent and timeless work of creative fiction. Also, and this should come as no surprise, the action sequences (action sequences in Sherlock Holmes?) were out of step with the original work, and came off as kind of tasteless in the true sense of the word-as in like eating cardboard. Maybe a fun bang for your buck if you are stuck at a shopping mall one afternoon and you have decided to depart the shopping experience for a film escape-it is that, but it just isn't up to snuff as far as film adaptations go. The historic time period visuals are left behind in the wake of casting the film the wrong way round, as is much of Sherlock Holmes dialogue, which is also frequently muffed by actor Robert Downie Jr.