Probably the worst movie I've ever seen.

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2012)

I'm going to make this short because I need to go and vomit soon.
I wonder why most people who praise this crap are from the U.S. I wonder if Guy Ritchie ever read a Sherlock Holmes book, or if he did, I wonder if he understood any more than the four-letter words.
Dear American audience: Sherlock Holmes is British. Robert Downey Jr. is apparently trying to do the British accent. I'm sorry to hurt your feelings but he's doing a poor job. As I watched this film, no, movie, I couldn't keep thinking of Hugh Laurie doing the American accent. Downey's acting is poor. He looks and sounds dull. Monotonously spoken typical Holmesian lines, utterly boring action scenes and the "funny" comments (simple enough for the American audience) in between the fights don't constitute an eccentric, ill-behaved but brilliant-minded detective. In the documentary part of the DVD, the actors applaud the "reinvention" of Sherlock Holmes as a more dynamic, humorous, "modern" figure. In that case they shouldn't call it Holmes. OK, Holmes studied martial arts and did drugs, but there was more to him than that. And why change the character of Watson? Holmes and Watson were NOT Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. If I want to see fighting and world-saving miraculous action with special effects, I will watch Bruce Willis. He saves the world much better. Ha! Now, where's the intelligent approach to the intelligent hero? If this is the proper way to do it, why don't you reinvent the Bible?
By the way, this movie is said to take place in the year 1891. Dr. Riva-Rocci introduced his blood pressure measurement cuff in 1896. It was only possible to measure systolic pressure at the time. Dr Korotkoff combined the use of stethoscope into the routine in 1905, which enabled the measurement of diastolic pressure. Blood pressure monitoring became a part of routine clinical examination in the early 1900s. This is not the only historical discrepancy in the movie.
To summarise, this movie is nothing but a lousy action piece made for mediocre, feeble-minded audience. They've tried to put in science but it doesn't help because it doesn't work. This is disgraceful. I gave one point because zero was not an option.
Now, will you excuse me. Vomiting time. Then some good old intelligent stylish Granada series with the brilliant Jeremy Brett. My one and only Holmes.