Last night my wife and I downloaded the recent Sherlock Holmes movie starring Ian McKellen.
This movie was about as different from an earlier movie starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as it could get.
Ian McKellen plays an elderly Sherlock Holmes. The elderly Holmes wants to correct some of the fictional embellishments that Dr. Watson added when he wrote the Sherlock Holmes tales. The problem is that Holmes has an Alzheimer's-like condition and Holmes has trouble remembering important details.
Holmes has a housekeeper and the housekeeper has a son. Holmes and the son become close.
The movie has numerous flashbacks, but not so many that the viewer loses track.
The story moves slowly. There is little action, unlike the Downey Jr. - Law movie. The story moves along mostly by dialogue. But it held our interest.
It is probably good that we did not see the movie in the theater. The big screen was not necessary for this movie.
But it was worth the $6.00 download fee.
JBK
Nov. 29, 2015
No comments:
Post a Comment