Don't waste your time and money

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2010)

This was the worst portrayal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters that I have ever seen. The plot made no sense whatsoever. As with most new versions of older stories/characters, the main characters become nothing more than street brawlers.
Anyone who has read the original stories would see this in an instant, and anyone who has seen the faithful adaptations done by PBS starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke will see how poor this movie is.
It was so bad, that I walked out halfway through the movie. The only similarity to Doyle's original characters is their names. Holmes was not a brawler. He was an extremely intelligent character who only used cocaine when bored. There was no indication in the original stories that Dr. Watson had a gambling problem. Irene Adler was not a streetwise, slutty thief - she was a renowned, honorable opera singer. Just read "A Scandal in Bohemia."