Sherlock Holmes (2010)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2016
SYNOPSIS: Is there nothing that The Asylum can’t do?
Wait, I got that wrong.
Is there nothing that The Asylum can do right? Sherlock Holmes promises a Victorian steampunk mystery, The Great Detective pitted against dirigibles and dinosaurs and all manner of strange and abyssal creatures.
What we get is a rather pedestrian (in tone, in subject matter, in pacing) story of a detective against a guy who invents some stuff. The dinosaur is a clever movie projection. The kraken beast is a submarine. The most amazing technology is the plot-specific spyglass (which is not so much technology as it is bad storytelling).
Holmes and Watson (Gareth David-Lloyd) have no chemistry together. They don’t even bicker well. Watson gives off the distinct sense that the actor is still depressed about his Torchwood character being killed off.
So was I, but I didn’t take it out on the movie-watching public!
Wait, I got that wrong.
Is there nothing that The Asylum can do right? Sherlock Holmes promises a Victorian steampunk mystery, The Great Detective pitted against dirigibles and dinosaurs and all manner of strange and abyssal creatures.
What we get is a rather pedestrian (in tone, in subject matter, in pacing) story of a detective against a guy who invents some stuff. The dinosaur is a clever movie projection. The kraken beast is a submarine. The most amazing technology is the plot-specific spyglass (which is not so much technology as it is bad storytelling).
Holmes and Watson (Gareth David-Lloyd) have no chemistry together. They don’t even bicker well. Watson gives off the distinct sense that the actor is still depressed about his Torchwood character being killed off.
So was I, but I didn’t take it out on the movie-watching public!
Kevin Hogan
Rachel Goldenberg
