Many reviewers have pointed out just how terrible the film is and, in particular, that this "Holmes" is nothing like the real one.
It's also full of terrible gaffes. "Serial killer"?! This expression dates from the 1970s, apparently coined by the FBI. The scriptwriter failed in many other ways to hit the Victorian modes of speech essential to any film set in the period.
What really got me, however, was the phony newspapers. These were nothing like real Victorian ones. They had laughable banner headlines of the type otherwise seen only in Superman or Batman films. Some of them were printed on little sheets of paper, very far from the broadsheets of the time.
Watch this only if you really have too much time on your hands.
It's also full of terrible gaffes. "Serial killer"?! This expression dates from the 1970s, apparently coined by the FBI. The scriptwriter failed in many other ways to hit the Victorian modes of speech essential to any film set in the period.
What really got me, however, was the phony newspapers. These were nothing like real Victorian ones. They had laughable banner headlines of the type otherwise seen only in Superman or Batman films. Some of them were printed on little sheets of paper, very far from the broadsheets of the time.
Watch this only if you really have too much time on your hands.