sherlock holmes? where?

Rating: 1/10 (15 April 2012)

this movie is a(nother) disappointing proof of the impression that most of the money in movie business is in the hand of the wrong people.
this has nothing to do with anything anyone would associate with the sherlock holmes that has been main character of real literature. there is no connection visible whatsoever to that kind of clever developed character.
dialog is stupid, unrealistic and scripted to a point that makes it unbelievably disappointing that the makers obviously think that the audience is completely dumbed down and wont recognize a pile of verbal garbage that is desperately modified to sound good.
characters are completely unbelievable, shallow and exaggerated in a way one would expect to see in a comic movie. with the difference that in those movies the components fit together to create something interesting at least. this movie fails miserably there. it's a mess.
story is non existent, calling it an excuse for the action scenes would give it too much credit. they are not even trying to do that.
the action scenes you would expect from a super-hero movie. and that's what it actually is. it's iron man in medieval times without that metal suit trying to do some kind of parody of sherlock holmes. this is the only point of view that would make it work somehow.
the actors are trying but it's a pointless effort with this direction and script.
there is a lot more that is just wrong about this movie. i don't have words for it at the moment. it feels like the mess that they call movie has left my brain in a similarly messed up state.
i am actually shocked to see this average rating it has at the moment. it cant be right. it just cant.