excellent cast + story + production + music = great movie, elementary, my dear Watson (Screen)

Rating: 7/10 (27 February 2010)

Actually, I got two motivations for this movie:
First, RDJR : he got my vote since "Iron Man" and coming from his painful private life, I like his attitude of having seen the devil and not care!
Next: Victorian London: for ages, I am attracted by this city in that time and can't really explain the reason except that my family building has flavor of that. My Christmas experience with "Scrooge" has been terrible, so I expected much of this one.
Besides this, I knew nothing of this movie and for me, Holmes was essentially a boring Japanese cartoon depicted as a fox.
That's why I came really surprised by it. Right at the opening credits, I enjoyed it: music, cast, sets, wardrobe, screenplay, everything was amazing. It was great to see again the "Notebook" heroin and the bad guy is totally convincing with his Andy Garcia look-alike.
I haven't keep in mind how he was deductive. Here, his solving skills are a bit robotic but has a tremendous impact. As a detective, the plot he has to solve is really imaginative and Sir Conan Doyle would have approved. But I admit to be a bit dumb being unable to guess the mysterious boss behind all this. I really like the old London because you can see the most incredible wealth being close to tremendous poverty.
For the fun, I played Holmes leaving the theater. Near my place, I found a scarf. Remembering the couple sited besides me, I look for them and found them at the toilets. "I think this belongs to you" "Sorry but No". What a shame for Holmes Jr!