I caught this on television last week and my initial thought was how awful it was and then fascinated at what was Victorian style car crash television. Even the talents of Richard E Grant were kneecapped quite literally with a laughable side story of Mycroft Holmes lurching around in callipers with a pale and wan expression. The best of the worst was Moriarty. An American actor, who, presumably learned his English accent from James Mason films, or to put it more accurately, Eddie Izzard doing James Mason. I wonder upon occasion why producers, directors and financiers do not take one look at the script and realise it is a turkey. Production values aside, a lot was done in terms of costume and set to make this succeed, but it should have been put in a shredder way before the poor, out of work actors were forced to put this rubbish on their CV. No redeeming features whatsoever, but for exactly that reason a compelling watch just to see how bad it could really get.

The problem with this interpretation is that it seems a disconnected story from the canon of Sherlock Holmes stories. While it has a fascinating (though not original) idea of having a younger Sherlock Holmes who is the polar opposite of the character we came to know in the book, it never fully develops this.Richard E Grant plays a good role, as Mycroft. To the reviewer who stated that Mycroft never appeared in the stories, I direct you to the 'Greek Interpreter' and 'The Bruce-Partington Plans'. Watson may well be the person who Holmes accuses in the stories of making things up - he is a police official - not in Afghanistan. The idea that Moriarty invents heroin is a bit much.In all, the story was good, but the film could have been better.

I first saw James D'Arcy in Master and Commander and, even though he only had a small part, I knew, call it a gut feeling, that he had talent. So I looked him up here and found Sherlock, so I went online and I ordered it. I waited three days and by the time I got it I was bursting at the seams, and I was NOT disappointed!James presents an amazing performance, my spelling isn't great, and I was impressed at the way he'd made Sherlock arrogant, yet humble, not very humble but you could see it, and he was handsome and sexy all at once!Vincent D'Onfrio is an excellent actor and portrayed Proffessor Moriarty excellently! He was mad and brilliant all to one! It was brilliant!The movie was well cast and Dr.Watson was amazing, you could see his disdain at Holmes at the beginning develop into the camraderie that they share at the end, amazing!!I would recommend this movie to every Holmes fan, it is an amazing piece of work!!

I recently watched this film and was amased at how bad it was. I am a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and have read all the books and seen most films produced, this interpretation was NOT him.I found the use of CGI pathetic as it was obvious, his drinking habits were confusing (he drank a bottle of vodka, a bottle of red wine and then half a bottle of absinth which would have made him blind), he slept with four women (two at the same time) and still somehow managed to save the day.Mycroft was played by one of my favourite actors but even he couldn't save the show. He is portrayed as a cripple who is frightened to go out. Mycroft is supposed to be a strong minded person who works for the government.Watson was the best of the lot, but i don't remember him being a mortician, also he should have been in the war.The biggest gaff I found was that they took a scene from "Hands of a Murderer" and made a couple of adjustments but it was still the same scene, didn't they have anything better to do?I would tell anyone who is considering watching this not to bother unless you are doing it for free and have nothing better to do, this is not for Sherlockians!