Not Exactly a "Character Stretch"

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2015)

The movie, as a whole, was not terrible.
I am a history geek, so right off the bat when I find something historically incorrect, the movie loses all credibility for me. If you look through the "goofs" section, the "Liquid-Paper/Wite Out" issue just the most ridiculous thing, not to mention the typo with regard to "trail vs TRIAL." Don't people use researchers or editors on movies anymore? Are they just churning them out so quickly and paying the lead actors so much that they can't afford to have someone make sure the thing is HISTORICALLY correct?
As for the acting--Benedict Cumberbatch played the part exactly like his Sherlock Holmes character. I was not impressed.
Also, while I usually enjoy the ending of movies where they have a little "continuing story" stuff before the credits roll, as I was reading the "So and so continued to blah blah blah and then yaddatah yaddatah" part, it seemed (to me) that adding the information they did at the end was a totally unnecessary afterthought. If it was that important, it should have been the theme throughout the movie.