Rating: - good quality, one problem
This DVD was generally of good quality, but I could never get all the way through one scene without it freezing and skipping. This fact was not revealed to me before I bought it.
Rating: - It's just not interesting
Setting aside the gross inconsistencies with the original stories, this film does little to distinguish itself from any run-of-the-mill made-for-cable movie. The actors are adequate, and the production values are adequate, but the script is dull and predictable. There is nothing to hook the viewer in at all. The makers seem to concede this fact by throwing in plenty of cheescake (various women are eager to bed young Sherlock) that serves no narrative purpose and does nothing to add depth to any of the characters, for whom it is hard to feel anything but indifference. The romantic element is also just tacked on in the most generic fashion, and is ineffective precisely because the viewer could care less about either Sherlock or what's-her-name. There is plenty of filler, such as the recurring flashback of the villain injecting Sherlock's older brother with something nasty. The scene is filmed (or rather digitally dressed ... Read More
Rating: - A revisionist look at a young Sherlock Holmes, but overwrought and without cleverness or style
I can almost hear the pitch: "Let's make a TV movie about Sherlock Holmes just as he's starting out as a private detective...but let's make him so revisionist that all the old-fogey traditionalists will pop their belly-buttons. We'll put in sex, heavy breathing, sword fights, graphic drug use and more sex. We'll make Holmes an anti-hero. And we'll create so much buzz the follow-up movies will be as good as an annuity for us." They forgot something. While a revisionist look at old heros and old plays can be more than welcome, better make sure the thing has wit and surprise, and that the cast can carry it off with charisma and style. Sherlock: Case of Evil, while it undoubtedly made the traditionalists huff and puff, fails at just about every other level.
The plot? Who really cares when we can't care about any of the characters. For what it's worth, it has to do with Holmes' determination to strike down Professor ... Read More
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- Quite possibly the worst Sherlock Holmes film ever made!
- good quality, one problem
- It's just not interesting
