Unexpected. Disappointing.

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2015)

Exactly how a Sherlock Holmes movie shouldn't be done! This wasn't a drama of deductive reasoning. It was a period light action movie. Think Shanghai Knights (except not as good).
The one thing that can be said for it is that it's pacey. There must have been five- plus decent prolonged action scenes.
But this isn't what I put a movie called Sherlock Holmes in to my DVD player to see!
The detective work is mostly limited to Holmes predicting the direction of his opponents next punches. Robert Downey Jr, who plays Holmes, is totally opposite to the character I expected (although I suspect this is partly the point).
In the end this movie wiled away an evening fairly innocuously but I'm not going to rush to see the sequel.