To keep up appearances, he was forced to hire the untrustworthy ham actor Reginald Kincaid (Caine) to 'play' the fictional Holmes in public. When Watson began writing popular stories based on his own exploits, he invented the Sherlock Holmes character as a cover, so as not to damage his medical career. Watson (Kingsley) is the brilliant detective there is no Sherlock Holmes. In this revision of Doyle's Baker Street duo, Dr. The story premise has been belittled as a sketch idea stretched too thin, and indeed the writers Gary Murphy and Larry Strawther worked mostly in TV show comedy. Watson is indeed a very original interpretation. I'm not sure Michael Caine's talents are being challenged either - but he's always entertaining. This picture is fun light entertainment buoyed by two very amusing performances. In my wit-challenged view that's a story without pretension and with no claim to equality with Oscar Wilde. Birchard, is a classic case of a simple story for simple people. Was it because the film's level of wit wasn't high enough for the likes of Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley? The old Basil Rathbone series and even Billy Wilder's masterpiece often revert to very simple jokes. Richard Canby's review dismissed it as trash. Some critics including Roger Ebert weren't pleased by 1988's Without a Clue.
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There's the popular TV series, of course, and due out soon is a brand-new Ian McKellen Holmes movie by Bill Condon. The later Robert Downey films, having been Indiana Jonesed and CGI's into big action spectacles, are a waste. Even before Billy Wilder's affectionate comedy epic, a British thriller called A Study in Scarlet imagined Holmes tracking down the infamous Jack the Ripper.
Movies inventing new cases for him to solve are legion.
Įverybody loves Sherlock Holmes, everywhere in the world. Starring Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport, Pat Keen, Peter Cook, Tim Killick, Matthew Savage, John Warner. Street Date Ma/ available through the Olive Films website / 29.95
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