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 enlarge | Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Actors: Rupert Everett, Nicholas Palliser, Neil Dudgeon, Ian Hart, Anne Carroll
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 35271
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE2390D
ISBN: 1419816160
UPC: 794051239020
EAN: 9781419816161
ASIN: B000AOEMVY
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: October 25, 2005
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 Excellent...but not for purists... November 9, 2005
SR (MN)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this film immensely...Everette is certainly wonderful as Holmes..but the Holmes as he might have been without Watson's rose colored glasses. If your a fan of Billy Wilder's Private Life of Sherlock Holmes..and can accept a Sherlock that makes mistakes and doesn't mind a little opium once in a while, you might want to give this a try.
 Not thumbs up; Not thumbs down November 2, 2005
RJ (USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
It was great to see a new Sherlock, even though this Sherlock was very unSherlockian. He had the wrong guy detained, recklessly endangered a girl, and just seemed to be too much of a slacker. But, it is good to see any effort in the post Brett world. We need new Sherlocks -- as imperfect as they may prove to be.
Pretty lousy October 31, 2005
Joseph C. Thomas (Suffolk, VA United States)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I only watched half of it when it came on PBS, but that was more than enough to pass judgement. Everett was bad as Holmes, he plays the master sleuth without charm or compassion, which anyone even mildly familiar with the canon would know Holmes was not without, especially in dealing with the opposite sex. But Everett's Holmes is even an ass to Watson. And Watson is not all that very well acted either - whats his name played him before, and didn't do a very good job the first name.
I knew I was in for a bad rendition when the movie opened with Holmes smoking opium. Sherlock Holmes was not an opium addict, he visited an opium den in one Doyle story undercover to stake out a suspect. Then, Holmes shot cocaine in the midst of his case. Sherlock Holmes never shot a 7 per cent solution when working on a case in the Doyle stories, only when not involved in a case because he was bored. For seem reason, modern filmmakers feel inclined to portray Holmes as some sort of drug addict. It really contributes nothing to the film, other than to peeve nit-picky Sherlockians such as myself.
As far as plot goes, it was tired and boring. This is not an authentic Doyle story, its a hack attempt at writing a mystery that merely plagiarizes elements from much better Doyle stories. The twin footman in the end was just hokey and dumb. Don't waste your time. The Jeremy Brett episodes are so markedly superior, I'd recommend watching reruns of those two or three times rather than watching this one once.
 Simply Dreadful... October 28, 2005
David T. Steere, Jr. (Annapolis, MD United States)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Rupert can be such a funny and wonderful actor--e.g. in the recent magical version of AN IDEAL HUSBAND. But Oscar Wilde is not Arthur Conan Doyle. And, Rupert, you are no Jeremy Brett here. Not that he really had to be. But to play Sherlock--pastiche or not--with absolutely no intensity, no intellectual vigor, no excitement--is to kill the main characteristics of Holmes. Rupert seems to be slumming here--lots of posing and looking mournful--and makes the detective the last thing he should be...ordinary.
A well-mounted production in many senses. Good character actors in support. A modernized story with fingerprinting and sexual perversion. But, without a believable Holmes, who cares? To make matters worse, Watson and Holmes seem much too young here. Watson is too short. And the relationships among Holmes, Watson and Mrs. Hudson are nowhere near as close and warm and devoted as they should be.
This production is just terribly misbegotten.
Welcome back, Mr. Holmes. October 27, 2005
RoverGuy (San Antonio, Tx)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised to catch this on PBS the other night. I approached it with serious skepticism, believing that no other actor could ever come close to portraying Sherlock Holmes as well as the great Jeremy Brett did. Rupert Everett did an outstanding job here! His portrayal is a bit similar to Brett's in some aspects, but he also brings his own unique style and characteristics to the role. The rest of the cast seemed fitting, and the director manages to recreate the period quite nicely. The story is actually pretty good... Not great, but good. The film is so well directed that it works out to be a most enjoyable Holmes mystery.
I really hope that this will be the first of many new Sherlock Holmes adventures starring the very talented Rupert Everett!
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