From member Brandon Fibbs:
I walked into Sherlock Holmes more than a little anxious. As a longtime fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective and a voracious reader of his exploits, I was concerned that director Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) was going to transform the beloved literary icon into little more than a parodic caricature (with an American actor standing in for the most quintessential of English characters, no less). As it turns out, Ritchie towed a very fine line, flirting with lampooning, burlesque satire to be sure, but also managed, just barely, to pull his film back from the brink and salvage something that, while forgettable, is at least an entertaining romp.\
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