My five-sentence review of Holmes

It [Holmes] has all the classic elements of a Holmes mystery (the “Bond, James Bond” bits, if you will) but adds so much more interest to the character. RDJr adds a fallibility, humanity, and depth to Holmes that I’ve never found with him in the books. He’s brilliant, sure, but he’s more of a brawler, more an adventurer, and much more ideosyncratic and anti-social — just as someone of that mind ought to be. He has vices, faults, and weaknesses unlike Doyle’s statuesque Sherlock of popular imagination. In RDJr’s skin, he’s lost all his posh, gentlemanly qualities and become very much the quick-thinking, baritsu stick-wielding badass. I won’t give anything away, but the ending stank of sequel and I hope to Watson’s sword cane that it happens.

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