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    Sherlock Holmes

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    Bravo to Guy Ritchie for pulling it off. I am a traditional Sherlock Holmes fan, and I went in to the show with a less than optimistic expectation. Though I initially thought that Robert Downey Jr. should never have been cast in the part, he succeeded in doing the part justice given his exceptional acting talent. However, that being said, other actors would have made for a much better "Sherlock Holmes" in keeping with the physical and character traits that Conan Doyle intended, actors like Charles Dance, who appeared in Michael Collins (that starred Liam Neeson) Or perhaps even better, how about Hugh Laurie of Dr. House fame. All he'd need is to have his hair dyed black and slicked back, and he would have suited the role perfectly. Otherwise the script was well written with many witty lines, and it was sprinkled with a healthy dose of trivia elements only the well-read Sherlock Holmes fan would likely pick up on, like the character's ability to speak French owing to his partial French ancestry, or Dr. Watson's first name, or Watson's future wife's name (Mary), or Sherlock's brother's name... and one could go on. Plus there was the injection of a non-Sherlock Holmes influence in the way of a big bad guy akin to the giant in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or Jaws in James Bond. The only reason I'm not giving this film a 10 is because of its over-reliance on "action" sequences to tell the story, and less emphasis on the intellectual side of things. The viewer really never is given enough information to piece the solution to the story for himself, unless one was a veritable student of chemistry. I'm not sure if Conan Doyle would have approved of leaving so few clues for the reader or the pacing of the story. But it was still an entertaining film to see.

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    phl222@  3.1.2010 age: 50+ 63 reviews

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