Sherlock Holmes a Mockery

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2010)

A review of Sherlock Holmes the Movie by a close friend. The best thing about "Sherlock Holmes" was Robert Downey, Jr. That man could turn a 5 o'clock news script into comedy. I reckon I could see him in anything. Oddly, Watson's character was turned on it's head by attributing him marshal arts skills, romantic involvement, and intellectual astuteness. Then Hollywood created an antagonistic relationship between the two men since Holmes's Bipolar mania annoyed Watson's desire for a quiet marital life with a woman for whom he couldn't get around to finding a ring due to his tempting escapades with Holmes he couldn't resist. The fiasco of casting Rachel McAdams as the femme fatale was like seeing Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in S&M leathers. I bet Hollywood was thinking, I know, let's change literary characters to create an action movie! Maybe next time we could change the hideous Spiderman to Butterflyman, and instead of saving folks, he can work in magazine publishing, yeah, folks won't know the difference! So there's my two star review of a potential well acted movie with intriguing plot full of clever deducements, reduced to a pugilistic affair of recreated literary figures.