Eh

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2011)

Firstly: This movie was so far off base of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, it was ridiculous. Irene Adler being an ex-lover, and the absent heroin/cocaine addiction being the biggest things changed.
But even with that, it was a watchable movie. I can't quite explain why; I would typically say, that if it wasn't based off a book, it would have been quite a good movie. But that doesn't quite work here. I wouldn't watch it again, but I don't consider it a total waste of my time.
So I guess watch it to make up your own mind. It's quite a decent movie, just incredibly different from the books, in serious and large ways.
*spoilers* I hate it when they take a classic, and turn it into a PC romance, which is just what they did. Anyone who has read the original stories will know Holmes would never have been in the company of Irene Adler except to arrest her. And his cocaine addiction -while not a focal point- is something that comes up frequently in the stories, as something he does to keep his mind sharp in between cases. Also, Holmes would NEVER have considered using 'mystical' powers or whatnot. He was hard-core empirical, and would have continued searching for a logical, scientific explanation till he died, rather than mess with something he didn't believe in, and -on more than one occasion- was disdainful of.