#Review sherlock holmes upgrade

#Review sherlock holmes upgrade

'Sherlock Holmes' enacts the strange new rites of hyperkinetic action and impossible CGI, and Holmes and Watson do their best to upgrade themselves. I think I became an Anglophile on those winter nights when I sat curled up in my dad's big chair, a single lamp creating shadows in the corners of the room, reading the Modern Library edition of the stories while in the basement I heard the comforting sounds of my parents doing the laundry.Įvery Holmes story is different and each one is the same, just as every day has its own saint but the Mass is eternal. Outside is the fabled Victorian London, a city we all know in our imaginations. Villains and cases come and go up the staircase at 221B Baker Street, but within that refuge, life stays the same: Holmes all-knowing and calm, Watson fretful and frightened, clues orderly, victims distraught, never a problem not seemingly insoluble. One of the comforts of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories is their almost staid adherence to form. But block bookings are not likely from the Baker Street Irregulars. It's likely to be enjoyed by today's action fans.

Guy Ritchie's film is filled with sensational sights, over-the-top characters and a desperate struggle atop Tower Bridge, which is still under construction. The less I thought about Sherlock Holmes, the more I liked 'Sherlock Holmes.' Yet another classic hero has been fed into the f/x mill, emerging as a modern superman.