Sherlock Holmes: Watching Detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) reveal how various crimes were committed by his nemesis, Lord Blackwood, through flashbacks is like watching a CSI or NCIS episode; we learn graphically how victims in each episode meet their fate. What’s appealing about this latest incarnation of the famous detective is that although the film makes us think it’s going to be another buddy movie with Holmes and sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) working together to solve a crime, such is not necessarily the case. Thank writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who most-likely (and thankfully) never heard of such a phrase when he wrote the books. Though I don’t think his Holmes was an action adventurer either. With a sequel already in the works (and Warner Brothers hoping this might become a lucrative long-running franchise), consider this series “Case Reopened.”
