Sherlock Holmes opened here on 26 December, and we saw it the same day and I loved it. While I can see where people are coming from when they talk about Holmes and Watson being given the "action hero" treatment, I don't think that this was overdone. Remember too that the other Holmes movies were made quite some time ago, when the cinema going public had different expectations. Also the more recent versions of Holmes on television may be tame in comparison, but the television audience is a different sort of animal. If Holmes and Watson were given that sort of treatment, the film would probably be a financial failure, as it would only appeal to Holmes devotees rather than the general cinemagoing public.

The only thing that to me took a litle bit of getting used to was the idea of a somewhat scruffy looking Sherlock Holmes. Other than that, the character of Holmes as portrayed by Robert Downey Jr is pretty close to the original Sherlock Holmes - I would suggest it is closer to the original Holmes than the popular series of movies featuring Basil Rathbone. Holmes was not a superhuman genius who never made mistakes, rather he was an ordinary person with exceptional skills of observation and deduction - he did make mistakes from time to time - he just didn't make many of them.

We might even go back and see the film a second time while it's still at the cinemas - and I'll get the DVD when it comes out..................