![]() Thorpe Holmes used his superb intellect, which was a family trait, to devise mechanical enhancements for his body and for those of various other creatures or contrivances to make robo-beasts for purposes that were not perfectly clear to us. The fundamentals of the plot, as we could understand it, was that Holmes’ brother, Thorpe, had been Lestrade’s partner and was seriously crippled in the line of duty. In the end, Miss Hudson completes the transcript, among interesting retrospections. Watson is being cared for during the London 1940 bombings by an attractive nurse, Miss Hudson (!) to whom he relates Holmes’ greatest accomplishment, a story which had never been told. It’s interesting that this movie as well as the recent Downey version portray the Holmes-Watson relationship well, but have a non-tall Holmes. But overall, the relationship between Holmes and Watson was well-done compared to many portrayals. ![]() Watson was lots taller than Holmes in this movie, and in fact looked as if he was growing out of his clothes. ![]() Only one shortcoming the actor portraying Holmes was short, and Doyle’s Holmes was tall. We give them decent marks for the portrayal of Holmes, which we rate as “good as any, better than some”. The improbable machines are very low-budget compared to the modern computerized images, but who’s fooling who? Holmes chases the mechanical flying dragon, piloting a machine that looks capable of flying around the world in 80 days or more. The technical stretches are no less improbable than those in Avatar, Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings, to name a few. But strangely, the movie does have some redeeming qualities. Sound wildly improbable? To an extent, yes of course. Rex gratuitously chasing down hookers and their tricks in London’s East End. No steam-powered giant tarantula in this one instead we have a mechanical flying fire-breathing dragon and a C3PO-like Darth Vader look-alike mechanical suit of armor, plus a non-skyscraper scale T. Overall, it is a kind of Wild Wild West hi-tech science fiction job set in Victorian London instead of in cowboy country. The new movie is available on DVD, and is not in theaters. This one is a product of Asylum Productions, and stars Ben Syder as Holmes. This is a new Holmes movie, interestingly titled “Sherlock Holmes”, but it is not the recently-released highly-hyped version starring Robert Downey as Holmes.
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