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Originally Posted by kazbates
In the advertisements, it seemed like they had really veered from the original stories. I like Robert Downey Jr. a lot, but even he wasn't a big enough draw for me to spend money to see the movie. My older kids saw it last night and weren't overly impressed. They said it was entertaining but a little far fetched.
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Well here's my opinion, and I'm not a massive Holmes fan although I do love the Basil Rathbone movies; this could have been a story about anybody. Downey is good, Jude Law is good, but this wasn't Sherlock Holmes. In this version Holmes is a dangerously erratic, mentally ill, pugilist with a crush on Watson. Watson is, well, blank and doesn't have much character at all throughout the film. The story is flimsy at best, and the CSI-like crash-zooms into flashbacks and flash-forwards are annoying as hell. All of this takes place in a CGI London more fake than any I've seen before.