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Review sherlock holmes1/6/2024 ![]() ![]() The mystery proper begins with a giant squid wrecking a bullion ship in the English Channel, which prompts Inspector Lestrade (William Huw) to call in Holmes (Ben Syder), who makes a quick deductive diagnosis (acceptably Doylean) which wraps up an autopsy Watson (top-billed Gareth David-Lloyd) is supposed to perform so the medical man can be available to assist the great detective.Īs it happens, Watson’s first job is pointlessly to dangle off a cliff – an incident which somehow tells him the gold is missing from the wreck he doesn’t even see, and though he notices an apparent drowning man in the waves he fails to mention this when he’s hauled to safety. Equally implausibly, this is one of those ‘the world is not yet ready to know’ cases – which implies that somehow Holmes managed to keep secret a business which winds up with a giant robot dragon laying waste to half of London and setting fire to the Houses of Parliament in 1882. It opens during the Blitz, with an aged Watson dictating one final memoir to a Miss Lucy Hudson (Rachael Evelyn) who, implausibly, has never heard of Sherlock Holmes. My notes on one of two 2009 films called Sherlock Holmes This cheapskate, shot-in-Wales knock-off of the Guy Ritchie-Robert Downey Jr film can’t even be bothered to extend any originality on a title – would Sherlock Holmes vs Spring-Heeled Jack or The Mystery of the Whitechapel Dinosaur have used up too much letraset? – and so filmographies are now forever stuck with two 2009 films that go by Sherlock Holmes.
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