Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Just about everything about this film is awful. They've hashed up the plot and characters so badly that it almost unrecognisable as holmes, lacking all the brilliance that made the doyle stories.the casting of holmes played by some actor that looks about 19 years old with wooden acting to match and non-of the attributes that make holmes holmes, makes the entire film completely unconvincing throughout.other negative reviews are spot on, there are so many flaws its just embarrassing, .....an 18th century police swat team, impulsive sex scenes!!.Watch the jeremy brett as holmes for a more accurate portrayal in the TV series.there a reason why this film is on at 2am on a tuesday morning on itv3, its utter rubbish.

Why is everyone harping on this movie? The filming is very good for a made-for-TV movie and the story is not unrealistic or absurd. Yes, it does break away from the traditional Sherlock Holmes character, but it is supposed to be like an intro story: it sets up how/why he became the man he is in the stories. All young men are emotion driven and stupid ... even 'great' persons such as Sherlock Holmes: he was not born an emotionless deducer of science. This movie just portrays the incidents which turn him into the man of the stories. I honestly wish sequels had been made. I would love to watch this Sherlock mature and grow into the fictional hero we all know and love.

This is a very poor film, it seems that the director and producer simply created a character and gave him the same name as the great detective, he is nothing at all like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original creation.To begin with, Holmes had several inapproriate affairs with women and is acting like some sort of a poor action hero. Dr Watson is far too old (both men are meant to be in there very early twenties) and Mycroft, for some inexplicable reason, is a cripple with metal casts on his legs.James D'Arcy makes a fair stab at Sherlock Holmes and Richard E. Grant (unfortunately only in one scene and a few flashback sequences) is excellent as Mycroft Holmes.This film would have been much, much better had they followed Doyle's original writings and hired better actors.

The dullest,most unconvincing piece of acting since Anna Nicole Smith told everyone,she wasn't marrying the eighty year Texan Billionare for his cold hard cash. The accents are laughable...I was waiting for Dick Van Dyke to appear,and shout,"Cor blimey Sherlock Holmes..you're a proper gent and no mistake...Gawd bless you Guv'nor".. And as for you Richard E Grant...shame on you...give your agent a slap.