much better than I expected

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2010)

After watching the trailers and reading some comments, I was actually expecting a mindless action movie that has nothing to do with Holmes. But it turned out to be quite wrong. The movie is very nice and it is actually reflecting Holmes as much as possible. It is not a Doyle story but there is nothing contradicts with the Holmes portrait by Doyle. There is some action but it is nothing exaggerated and the dialogs are satisfactorily crafted in an intelligent and logical way. The sense of rationalism what is the main part of the character Holmes is always there. The only part I found strange was the involvement of Irene Adler. In the original series, she had a different role in the whole story. Also, Holmes is supposed have an accent but it was simply not there. Nevertheless, much better than I expected.