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A Mockbuster ameliorate than well-nigh
Okay, Asylum. Nosotros know your routine. Get some public domain property to do a "Mockbuster" of a new release, put a washed up star in a minor function then you can put his name first on the cover, proceed to decorate with cheap CGI.
Usually, what you become is pretty contemptible, like Hunter five. Conflicting or Male monarch of the Lost World. This, on the other hand, was really okay.
Commencement, they were truer to the grapheme of Holmes and Watson than the Guy Ritchie abortion recently released. It would appear the writers actually READ something by Arthur Conan Doyle. Okay, maybe the story was a tad far-fetched. (Mechanical monsters in 1882 London? For that matter, Telephones in 1882 London, and ones that looked more similar c. 1930 models.) Only the relationship between Holmes, Watson and Lestrade was near right. They also didn't go for the cheap shot of making Moriarity the villain.
The just letdown is the actor who played Holmes. His vocalisation was a flake too high and his mannerisms a bit also effeminate, compared to let's say Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett. But the very fact I feel the need to brand those comparisons is really a step upward for the Asylum...
One more note. The whole picture show seems to have been filmed through a sepia filter. I approximate that was the only style they could make information technology wait more than sometime fourth dimension than it would otherwise.
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Some other beautiful mess from The Aviary
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What does a mini Tyrannosaurus male monarch, a behemothic squid, a steampunk mistress, and Iron Man all have in common with Sherlock Holmes? You lot can't actually think of anything or a fashion they could mix together? Well, neither could I, until I saw The Asylum's version of Sherlock Holmes.
Equally is usual with The Asylum releases, this came out about iii days after Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. Obviously, it's a completely dissimilar animate being than the theatrical film. This is a crazy mix of Sherlock Holmes, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and the Wild, Wild W pic with Will Smith. Even so not excited? The cinematography is what I've come to look. A lot of odd close-up shots during action sequences, sometimes to aid keep the special furnishings upkeep down. There's a lot of monster bespeak-of-view where the camera barrels through the forest, chasing Holmes and Watson or attacking someone.
The acting is not too bad. First-timer Ben Snyder plays Holmes, and he kind of just literally walks through his part. He walks through the woods, the streets of London, the backalleys of the slums, the seaside, you name it. Other than that, he pretty much relies on Watson (played by Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd) to practice all his dirty work. That dirty work includes an extremely overlong repelling trip downwards the side of a cliff which was obviously meant to create tension and put you on the edge of your seat, but ends up taking so long and being and then over-dramatic you actually kickoff hoping he'll just autumn. Surprisingly, David-Lloyd must have gotten paid enough to exist in the entire picture show since he actually figures into almost every scene.
Besides Gareth David-Lloyd, there's another genre-related "big name" actor that is added to the cast to aid concenter fans to to the movie. They must take really had to push the budget to get ii relatively "big" actors in one pic. This time, it's Dominic Keating from Enterprise, Beowulf, and Heroes. He plays Sherlock Holmes' brother, who besides goes by the name of Spring-Heeled Jack (seeming to have no connectedness to the graphic symbol of sociology). No, information technology'southward not Mycroft. Apparently another blood brother nosotros've never heard of who was injured in the line of duty exists and now has a robot / steampunk-looking torso that is reminiscent of Iron Human being. He barely ever wears the helmet for the adjust, but information technology actually does await kind of cool. Of course, it feels like Keating did just enough piece of work to merit him being featured on the cover of the DVD to help promote it.
The special effects and makeup work all look pretty expert. It's a little baroque seeing a mini T-rex running around the London redlight district. The giant octopus tentacles that destroy the send at the beginning of the picture show await strangely similar to the ones used in Mega Shark VS Giant Octopus.
The "Making-of" featurette was actually pretty cool. It gave me a little more appreciation for The Asylum films. It really does appear that the filmmakers actually care about their trivial movies. Information technology seems like they're handed a script, told how long they have to shoot (in this instance xiii days), and bang out the films with little or no pre-production. The guys that exercise the makeup and costumes really put quite a bit of work into their individual tasks for the film.
This moving-picture show volition fit nicely on SyFy'due south Saturday night line-upwards, which is where The Asylum has it custom-fitted for. Information technology'southward definitely no worse than anything else shown in that time slot. It'south crazy, but I actually think these films are fun and wait forward to them. My wife, who tin can't stand B-flicks, fifty-fifty sabbatum through this. That is a living attestation alone.
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Not a skillful movie, but not a bad i either
Sherlock Holmes is not a proficient motion-picture show past a long shot, but in comparison to some of the other movies Aviary has churned out information technology is not that bad either.
I do concur it does accept its issues. The moving-picture show is low budget, and some of information technology does show, as some of the production values while not terrible are not great. Some of the editing could take been better, while the picture is dully lit and some of the sets, locations and costumes are just okay if somewhat uninteresting. The dinosaur and dragon are quite practiced though. The moving picture is too short, and I recollect too rushed also, and while it was nice to heed to the soundtrack was forgettable soon later. Ben Syder does do what he can with the iconic detective known as Sherlock Holmes but I couldn't assistance thinking in terms of mannerisms and appearance he was miscast.
However, the management was decent, as was the script which had some prissy touches without existence entirely exceptional. While it does have its holes and quite foreign in its experience, the story is an interesting one and entertaining enough if y'all don't call up nearly it too much, the villain is enjoyable and there are some good performances from Gareth David as a more quiet and composed Watson and Dominic Keating. Elizabeth Arends is lovely, and the climax was diverting and much better than I expected.
Overall, there is nothing outstanding on display, and those who are looking for a faithful adaptation will be disappointed. But it is mildly entertaining with some good things if you don't take it too seriously. five/10 Bethany Cox
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Every bit if a Sherlock Holmes story was written by someone on LSD.
When I rented this Sherlock Holmes motion picture from Netflix, I just naturally assumed it would exist like nigh Holmes films--either a retelling of an original Conan Doyle tale or perhaps a story inspired by the originals. However, when I received the disc and read through the summary, I was shocked to see that it involved dinosaurs, monsters and other fantastic things--stuff I thought I'd NEVER find in a Sherlock Holmes story! Now I am a purist--so much so that I won't even watch the new Robert Downey Jr. Holmes films. To me, Jeremy Brett is THE Sherlock Holmes, as he'southward very close to the Holmes of the original stories. So, I immediately idea of just sending this bizarre new version back without watching it--merely, against my better judgment, I decided to lookout man it. And, sadly, I at present experience a bit stupider from the feel.
In "Sherlock Holmes", Holmes and Watson look null I had always imagined them. Both were awfully young and could have used haircuts. Only, at to the lowest degree this Holmes didn't smoke the stereotypical style pipe or wear the dearstalker cap--things not constitute in the Conan Doyle stories--so I'll bump its score to a generous two. But as for the rest, information technology didn't impress me. Holmes seemed to have little regard for Watson and he seemed to care fiddling about risking his associate's life--something very atypical for the character. In the stories, Watson was neither a slave, pet or expendable--he was Holmes' friend and never would Holmes have so cavalierly risked his friend's life. And, for some bizarre reason, Sherlock'southward brother is NOT Mycroft (similar he was in the stories) and he calls his famous detective brother 'Robert'. Huh?! Now I am, peradventure, focusing on unimportant details. After all, while the characters are NOT washed correctly, it's a minor problem when you lot think about EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS MOVIE!!! To say it'southward a chip anachronistic is like maxim WWII was a fleck of a tiff! It even fabricated the horrible film "The Wild, Wild West" look reasonable in comparison!! It seems that a mad man has come up with all sorts of cool things--similar a robot adapt, immunosuppressants (and they actually use this very mod medical term in the film), giant flight monsters, discussions of neurons and a whole of other crap that made absolutely no sense in the 19th century. Plus, Watson's revolver can fire at least seven shots without being reloaded--because the film folks never bothered to count the shots to brand sure it made any sense. Probably this is because either they didn't intendance or they were all using LSD. Either way, Nix about the film makes sense, none of information technology is expert and information technology'due south all a horrid little mess designed to exist enjoyed by incredibly stupid people. Impaired and a waste of time from showtime to finish. Some people should really feel ashamed for having produced this mess.
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What an odd, odd little film!
What an odd, odd little movie. Information technology's 1 of those where every bit you lookout it y'all wonder how the producers raised the money to make it, but yet yous are sort of glad they did. Two of the most notable characters, Sherlock Holmes himself, played past Ben Syder, and the intriguing, interesting Elizabeth Arends, accept very thin CVs, this being their start commercial film, are actors I hope to run across again in future films just based on their performance here. Non all actors in this creatively low-upkeep flick are new comers. Gareth David-Lloyd who plays Watson, and Dominic Keating, who plays Holmes blood brother, are both established actors with substantial bodies of work. It is puzzling that screenwriter Paul Bales (100 Million BC and Reasonable Doubt) named Holmes' blood brother Thorp. Conan Doyle named Sherlock'south brother Mycroft. Mostly, though, the story is consistent with details established by Conan Doyle. This story has nil to do with stories written by Conan Doyle and the ground for the plot seems an insoluble enigma in offering an explanation for notable events in London of 1882 that in reality never happened. The film is curt plenty to remain interesting and entertaining. Don't take it likewise seriously, sit down back and be enjoyably baffled by this cinematic marvel.
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Not the worst I've seen Asylum do...but yet only passably decent
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Every bit a devout fan of this immortal Conan Doyle graphic symbol, 1 would think that I would be happy with 2 adaptations in the same twelvemonth...
The Guy Ritchie flick had a large upkeep, terrific actors...and was horrible. This motion picture had no budget, newbie actors...and rather managed to come off slightly less horrible.
**** Pocket-sized Spoilers ahead ******** The plot was decent enough, if not far-fetched, but the mechanical monsters were a flake also cyberpunk for a good Holmes story. Special effects were cheap but passable and inside the line of expectations for an this kind of product.
Inventing a new brother for Sherlock was a error, but I could have accepted information technology for this movie and so take forgotten about him.
The scenery and photography was actually quite good. Visually, the picture show was above parr for Asylum. Accents and local traits were well-portrayed, if not a tad on the charicatural side. Acting was adequate, except for...
The extremely poor, horrible choice for the actor playing Sherlock. Not that he didn't try, just he was admittedly and horribly miscast. His Holmes was annihilation only, he was to brusk, had all the incorrect looks ans the wrong attitude...the listing goes on.This was the only matter that actually turned me off the movie. I acknowledge to being hard in this respect, measuring every actor that plays Holmes to the IMHO immortal performances of the likes of Sir Basil Rathbone and especially Jeremy Brett. To Snyder'south defense: Robert Downey portrayed an as disappointing Holmes in the Ritchie moving picture. If it had had an even passable Holmes, I would have actually liked the moving-picture show.
Still, I would not want to turn anyone off information technology. Go and see it, make up your own mind. Don't shoot anyone if you don't like information technology. Nobody ever said this is supposed to exist Oscar material...Information technology has its adept points, and if you can get beyond the totally un-Holmes-similar Holmes, you might fifty-fifty like information technology.
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Asylum's best moving picture so far?
Well, I take to say this one was actually a nice surprise. I'd requite any motion-picture show a chance, and even after I've seen some actually bad stuff from Asylum (famous for their , I still keep an eye on any they come up with.
"Princess of Mars" was a step forward, could be expert, it had not bad SFX and kinda retro Wink Gordon atmosphere, but Traci Lords as a princess... Give me a break! Well, this Holmes motion-picture show, as far every bit it is from anything Holmes written past Arthur Conan Doyle, is actually pretty entertaining and looks very skillful! I'd say it's a really decent production, with practiced actors and very good effects, given its low upkeep. It's not cutting edge CGI, merely information technology does the trick and creates a certain feel to the whole thing. What y'all come across on screen is as good as the BBC or Authentication take a chance movies from the beginning of the 2000s. The script could apply some polishing, only I won't grumble about it. If you lot chose to see a Sherlock Holmes moving-picture show with a behemothic octopus, a dragon and a Tyranosaurus on the comprehend, what the hell did you expect? I admit, I had low expectations, but I couldn't resist that poster, and so I just had to give it a try... and I don't regret! Speampunk flavored mystery with a twist ending :) Don't expect a masterpiece, merely enjoy the picture for what information technology is!
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Information technology'due south not a adept film merely a charming motion-picture show in an amateurish way
I wouldn't call this a skilful film simply I found it to exist mannerly in an amateurish way. It's rather like watching 1960'southward Star Trek or Doctor Who with modern-day eyes - it'southward corny and the special effects aren't great just it tin be entertaining if you know you lot're non watching modern-day entertainment.
The product values, dialogue and direction aren't keen and there isn't much in the way of dramatic interim until the climax of the film - the actor playing Holmes is specially un-dramatic and speaks too softly for a leading man - but both Holmes and Watson are charming in their ain style and have a playful chemistry together. Gareth David-Lloyd makes a sweet but quiet Watson who's a bit deadening as times (though he gets to assistance save the day in small ways) and Dominic Keating isn't used all that much until the final 30 minutes of the moving picture but he gives the strongest performance of all the actors involved.
The story wasn't too bad if you don't think most it too much - the bad guy (partly out of revenge) wants to use steam punk monsters to wreak havoc on London - only information technology is over-the-top at times (peculiarly the function involving a gasbag ballon) and I wouldn't buy this flick for the story alone. I have to say that I understood the story more on 2nd viewing.
And then overall, I wouldn't advise people to buy this film if they're looking for a professional person movie to watch but if you're in the mood to sentry something silly with friends that involves Sherlock Holmes, mechanical monsters and a cheap 19th century backdrop (and you don't mind films that take a cheap feel to them) give this a get.
For a mock-buster film, I'd give this six out of x. For a picture show in full general, I'd give it 3 out of 10.
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Atrocious... in every believable manner
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Unfortunately, this website does not permit a minus rating, nor even a Turkey (0) rating. The part that is really infuriating was that I could come across places where, with a soupçon more effort and a better script, this might really have been quite exciting.
The monsters simply weren't. The opening sequence had really nothing to do with the rest of the story, apart from introducing the concept of monsters. The dinosaur was ludicrous and there was no existent sense of menace, the dragon marginally better, but still seriously flawed.
The activity sequences looked and felt as if they had been gathered up from the cut room floor where they had spliced together an episode of Dr Who, followed past The League of Boggling Gentlemen.
The cast wandered aimlessly about in this mess, the script started ideas and then abandoned them, I wondered if there was a director at ane indicate.
The worst error of all was in the casting of Holmes. Ben Snyder only did non have the gravitas, the authority, to carry off the character of Holmes. The character which has something of a reputation for absorbing the lives of the actors who play him was simply flat and lifeless in Mr Snyder'south hands. In the end, I could not decide if I was annoyed or but depressed by this film. Since I ordinarily similar this sort of thing that is a lamentable reflection to accept.
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Non even bad in a practiced fashion, but slow and dumb
This is an astounding terrible movie which obviously had a pretty significant budget
To be fair here are some proficient points, effects, filming and sets.
Everything else was painful to watch without fast forwarding Pointless dialog Completely wrong casting for Sherlock Holmes Plot with and so many holes discontinuities and absurdities Editing. If this motion picture was edited at all it would be about 30 min long. It has many pointless scenes which add zero to the story Bizarre not-Sherlock Holmes characters... like a blood brother named Thorpe who worked with Lestrade???
Definitely 1 of the worse movies I have ever seen and information technology isn't fifty-fifty bad in a proficient way, just tedious and dumb.
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Foreign film, not very good simply sort of entertaining.
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Sherlock Holmes starts in the English language Channel as a ship called the Corronett is sunk by what looks like a huge Octopus, the alone survivor is interviewed by Inspector LeStrade (William Huw) & the globe'south foremost detective Sherlock Holmes (Ben Syder) & his trusty sidekick Doctor Watson (Gareth David-Lloyd). LeStarde & Watson believe the babblings of ocean monsters to exist nonsense just Holmes is not and so certain, then afterwards reading an article in a local newspaper almost a monster attacking a prostitute & her customer Holmes starts to wonder. Holmes investigates & uncovers a diabolical plot by a madman to blow upwards Buckingham Palace & kill the Queen while destroying London using robotic monsters & Dinosaur'southward, it'south upward to Holmes & Watson to prevent the total destruction of London & save the lives of those who live there...
Directed past Rachel Goldenberg this was The Asylum'southward endeavor to cash-in on the large upkeep Hollywood flick Sherlock Holmes (2209) with Robert Downey Jr. as the famous detective created past Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, equally far as Mockbusters go this is quite entertaining in a actually daft sort of way merely information technology nonetheless has many flaws & ultimately is a bit of a mess. Too as creating the worlds nigh famous detective Sherlock Holmes author Doyle also wrote The Lost Globe which featured monsters & Dinosaur'south much similar this movie does & I am wondering if the makers just combined Doyle's two most famous literally works to come up upwardly with this & somehow create a world modelled on Doyle's novels, or so again maybe information technology's to appeal to the Sci-Fi Channel crowd. The script is a fleck of a mess actually, from monsters to robots to bizarre plans to blow up the Queen & destroy London by an ex-policeman who miraculously turned into a complete genius & created a living robotic adapt, a full on perfect android & huge mechanical monsters to a huge robotic Dragon flight around London at the end which is destroyed by a hot air airship. Sherlock Holmes has a sense of fun adventure running through information technology simply all the plot holes & weak narrative doesn't help yous get involved in the story or graphic symbol's. How did an ordinary policeman become an absolute genius? What was in the syringe that Watson stuck in that robot adult female's neck? Why did stop the bomb going off? How could this guy build huge monsters without anyone noticing? Despite being i of the smartest people alive Sherlock Holmes lets his best friend Watson hang over the side of a cliff with zippo more than a rope loosely tied around him & I can't believe no-one (IE the British public & that woman at the starting time in a prologue set up a few years in the hereafter as Watson is an old human) would not notice or remember a huge fire breathing flight Dragon destroying London. It's the sort of thing people would probably remember. The Sherlock grapheme is pretty much wasted here, he doesn't do much detective piece of work & all the answers fall on his lap & the plot twist about halfway through is far too predictable. At a shade under ninety minutes it moves along at a decent step & is ane of the improve rip-off'due south from The Aviary simply that's hardly any sort of recommendation, is it? The script retains various points & people from the original novels including Inspector LeStrade, Baker Street & Watson.
This is maybe the best looking picture show from The Asylum, shot here in the UK in Wales it looks pretty nice really although the makers obviously know nothing of the geography of Buckingham Palace & it's surroundings. There'southward a giant Octopus, a T-Rex type Dinosaur & a really rather cool looking chrome metallic fire breathing Dragon in this, the CGI computer effects are much better than usual for The Asylum & some are actually adequately decent, a few of the Dragon shots in particular equally information technology flies around Big Ben setting the surrounding buildings on fire are fairy impressive. I wonder if the giant Octopus at the offset is a cheeky piddling in-house reference to The Asylum's notoriously bad Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)? Rated PG this is mild stuff, when people are shot there's no claret for example & the violence is kept to a minimum.
Probably filmed on a low upkeep by general film standards simply fairly loftier with regard to The Asylum's usual output this doesn't wait likewise bad with decent effects & some dainty production design. The acting isn't great, Ben Syder as Holmes is very flat, Watson has more personality every bit Watson while the main villain really hams it upwardly.
Sherlock Holmes was only fabricated because of the big upkeep Hollywood moving picture & equally such is a cheap cash-in simply it does take a certain unusual amuse in it'due south oddness, office detective story, role fantasy, part action hazard & part drama this strange adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is a likable if not exactly brilliant curiosity.
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Certain like this Sherlock! Wait, no I don't! No, wait, I exercise! I call up...
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OK, so maybe this "Sherlock" is actually named "Robert." Possibly he never says Sherlocky things like "Elementary, my honey Watson," never wears a double-brimmed cap, and is built like a ane of those petty lawn jockey guys who hold the lantern.
So peradventure there's a giant, metal dragon, dinosaurs that walk effectually and roar and that's about it, a kraken (!) for no discernible reason and some flight creatures that appear in the trailer merely I don't remember really showing up in the film.
So maybe this Sherlock (distressing, "Robert") never actually deduces annihilation, never solves a mystery, never uses a magnifying glass to look at a clue. Mayhap all he does is fly around in a hot air balloon and fight a guy in a metal conform that producers must have thought looks cool like "Iron Man" but is more than humorously reminiscent of some 1950s B-movie robot.
Allow's say all of this is truthful. Because it is. Does all that necessarily make it a bad picture show? No! Admittedly non! I mean, yeah! Absolutely then! I mean... I mean...
I hateful, it'due south actually hard to think now that this moving-picture show has turned my encephalon into Dippin' Dots.
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Horrific pick for Sherlock Holmes
This is a picture show about ane human - Ben Syder and his destruction of the character of Sherlock Holmes. I am astonished and appalled that such a hopelessly poor actor should have made it through the initial casting process. He would have been laughed out of any amateur audition. Forget the height, voice and mannerisms, just focus on the terrible, terrible acting. I tin can honestly say information technology's the worst I have ever seen.
And this is a great pity as the filming, sets, costumes and indeed, the other actors, are all very good.
Someone else suggested that he may well be the Director's son - I but promise he has that excuse.
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Y'all've got to be kidding!!
I agree with most of the other 1 star comments. The loftier ratings must accept been written by friends of friends.
Bad cast, lightheaded plot, poor script and a complete waste of time. The only reason I watched it was because I take to picket all the Holmes films. I think the degree must all be friends of friends. Sherlock did non have any gravitas. He was smaller than Watson, too soft spoken and looks like a cockney gangster. Modern actors but tin't do convincing posh accents any more. Rubbish diction and even more than rubbish script.
If information technology was a parody or a one-act it would merit iii or 4 stars. Equally an example of a naff picture it gets 10.
When y'all have and then many smashing and expert productions to compete with you accept to produce something that gets close to the required standards of excellence. And this does non go anywhere near.
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Sherlock Holmes (2010)
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WOW. I watched this as I hadn't seen a bad film in quite a while, and Asylum never neglect to disappoint. Merely here they did fail. It was genuinely well written and as well a lot of damn fun. Watson recalls the story of Sherlock that has never been told. After a number of monster attacks around London, ranging from giant octopus to mini-tyrannosaur, Holmes is drafted in to solve the instance. As always, the mystery must come up to a logical decision of some sorts. So how did Asylum manage to create an impressive piece of entertainment? First of all, they managed to get some genuine talent. Snyder, David-Lloyd and Keating all give memorable performances and are faithful to their characters. They take it seriously, but also accept fun, but never forget that this is just a knock-off meant to cash in on the Hollywood release. The script develops the characters very well, and the villain has a reason to be the way he is. It's about emotional at times. Past the end, when a giant mechanical dragon takes to the skies, it completely had me. This has the same quality, in both writing and product, of a very good Dr. Who episode. I hope The Asylum put just as much effort into time to come releases.
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What did I just watch
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You know when you're bored and it'south fourth dimension to watch a moving-picture show, withal there's zippo on the box and you're fed up watching Scarface for the 67th time, what practise you do? Pop over to your neighbours and ask him if he'south anything to watch. I did only that, and estimate what he gave me? Yes, you guessed correctly: Sherlock Holmes. "But that'due south not Jude Law and RDJ" I said, to which my neighbour replied, "no, it's non" OK, let'due south requite information technology a attempt. I popped the kettle on, fabricated a mash, sat dorsum and pressed play on my remote control... to quote Jack Lemmon: "Information technology's magic fourth dimension" Sadly, it quickly became 'Tragic time' I got by the opening scene, and then onto the scene where Holmes enters the room where Watson is almost to cut into the corpse, Holmes mentions that information technology is x o clock, you tin actually see Holmes optics looking upwardly and to his right at the clock and you'll notice that the easily on the clock suggest that it'due south actually 25mins to ii. I got no further than that. Enough said. I give thanks you.
P Southward - My neighbour told me to throw it in the bin afterward I'd watched it.
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To call it "bad" is charitable
I would compare this movie to swimming scum, if not for the fact that information technology would exist an insult to pond scum.
The acting is terrible, and - worse - the plot is nonsensical. Silly plot points are particularly troubling for a Sherlock Homes picture show, as the stories typically rely on intellectual consistency and insights. The fact that this film involves monsters and the White Chapel murders means it'southward not even suitable for children. Equally such, it'south difficult to imagine how production was ever financed. A rich relative or generous government subsidies, maybe? Ben Snyder's have on Sherlock Holmes is insipid ... but he certainly isn't helped by the stiff dialog.
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Sherlock and Watson tackle an evil plot that strikes very shut to abode.
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This movie is ripe for a consummate giggle, (cause who doesn't honey behemothic mechanical Velociraptors running murderously amok in Victorian England) I HIGHLY suggest this very army camp movie. It features Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto on Torchwood) playing a very long-suffering Watson. The histrion playing Holmes (Ben Syder), couldn't act his way out of a moisture paper sack in the beginning. Merely that awkwardness actually worked for this product. Ben had all the introductory charm and skill of Zooey Deschanel in part 1 of "Tin Man" (WHich is to say he had none at all) But he eventually warmed into the silliest, most foible ridden and still valiant version of Holmes. And I came to really like him in the role--frail, skinny thing that he is. (Actually, exercise men actually have bones that tiny!!!!) Information technology was a shocker at outset. Ben Syder walks in as Holmes, and you call up "He'southward got the nose, he'south got the thin build." But then Ben opens his mouth on screen for the first time and I was like "Oh Noes! Holmes must have lost his testicles in a freak lab accident!"
Still, at that place's many reasons to honey this picture--not the least of which is that one just tin't seem to non laugh... Difficult! In the end, information technology was truly Wonderful stuff! The plot(lessness) was such steampunk hilarity that it is truly a 'must see' for a lighthearted Holmesian experience. (A creepy mechanical nurse, an evil Thorpe Holmes(read Mycroft)--that is worse than Moriarty could ever exist, and a poor, unfortunate LeStrade bound intractably to Thorpe!Mycroft'southward terrible past finish out this amazingly weird, quirky jaunt into utter spoofery.)
Did I mention the "sort of" durigible, the steam-driven dragon, the "maybe" Kraken, the user-friendly castle with the laboratory, the mechanical accommodate of armor, the highly improbable (still perfectly delicious)scientific discipline, the six pence whore, and lots of explosions? This flick was obviously made by dedicated fans of Sherlock Holmes who were also on the shallow stop of the Steampunk pool. They had more budget than they deserved and less than they needed and I hug my copy of this riotous mess of a motion picture every week. I dear it!
The horrid effects aren't that horrid when you expect back at movies of the past. We're merely a bit spoiled on big budget CGI these days.
But exist prepared to manus over your willing pause of disbelief to ane of Scotland Yard's finest to stuff in a bag and beat to death with a stick. You'll be fine.
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Sherlock Holmes and the case of 'what were they thinking'
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Watson is more than assertive and the stronger character than Holmes, I hope the casting managing director cashed the check for casting Holmes speedily; Lestrade sounds as if he has escaped from a bad episode of 'East Enders'; the dialogue is frequently drowned out and inaudible over the scene music. On the upward side the scenery and sets were excellent, effects good only storyline with some other Holmes brother beingness a constabulary officer weak. Definitely a hire and not purchase movie, if you are actually stuck for making up a fourth film to go the four for iii rentals deal. The sleeve annotate from Blockbuster UK " In an EXtraordinary league of it ain" is true, this film is just too bad to even put with 'The Postman'. The trailer is the all-time part of the flick.
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The Case Of The Curious Effort.
I tin can't say it's a thwarting because I had no item expectations, and then I couldn't have been disappointed. Yet there were also many odd elements in the film. It was disturbing, really.
First, and most important, Ben Snyder equally Sherlock Holmes doesn't pack enough juice into the role. It'due south not that he gives a poor performance, just that he'due south miscast. It'southward easy to be spoiled after a nutrition of Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett, true, but Snyder is too short, a little frail, and has a high pipage voice that, with the aid of the poor sound, tends to cloak the dialog. He'southward not Sherlock Holmes, although he'd probably make a fine subordinate grapheme -- not a greengrocer, maybe, but a greengrocer'due south store assistant. Gareth David-Lloyd does better with Dr. Watson and Lestrade is about right.
It was directed past Rachel Goldenberg. Along with her DP, she decided to shoot information technology all in a kind of gloomy sepia temper, in a London where the sun never shines. Lots of old-fashioned industrial junk in the settings, behemothic gears wheels, walking beams, and perambulating mechanical dinosaurs. She spends about ten minutes on a scene of Watson clambering up and downwards the confront of a cliff that would have been more effective in half that time. There are some noisy ambivalent flashbacks to events that terminal only an instant and come directly from CSI. And there are a few insignificant anachronisms. (The phone wasn't widely accepted in 1888; it came into utilise after it was adopted by Queen Victoria later on.) It owes little to Conan-Doyle except the scattering of master characters. Holmes gets to pull of 2 or iii of his amazing deductive stunts, including diagnosing a case of mercury poisoning (or something) in a cadaver he's no more than glanced at. Fifty-fifty hither, Mycroft has get Thorpe, for some reason. Information technology isn't insulting, an offense to one'due south sensibilities.
If there'south nothing else on, and if y'all're not a purist, it's worth watching, but it's not worth seeking out.
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A fantastic Holmes Adventure
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This product offers serious Sherlockians relief from several problems that have plagued them for many years. There are few 'Americanisms.' Most of the actors accept proper, if 'regional,' British accents and the script is reasonably costless of obvious anachronisms. Locations accept a gritty, non-spiffed-up look and many of the characters and extras look like existent people, not arcadian Victorian stereotypes.
The film begins during the latter stage of 'The Rush' in December, 1940 London. An anile Dr. Watson asks his resident nurse to take a manuscript and boosted exact notes about "…his greatest and least known accomplishment." When the nurse asks "Who is he?" Watson replies, "Sherlock Holmes." This tale opens in the English Channel, in 1882 with the destruction of an English language send returning "The Queen's Shilling" from the Due west Indies. The bodily method of its destruction is one of the unresolved points in the moving picture. Various devices are never explained nor are their abilities described in any detail. In essence, the viewer is shown only the effects, never the ways by which those effects are achieved. If that is satisfying to you, and then you volition probably enjoy the moving-picture show.
Eventually, we are introduced to Sherlock'due south brother, retired Detective Inspector Thorpe Holmes, who was severely injured seven years before in line of duty while pursuing criminals with his then-partner, now-inspector Lestrade. The story line is difficult to follow, only is self-consistent and makes some sense in retrospect. One must accept that the villain is a scientific genius and his inventions can perform in convincing mode.
There remain a number of irritating anomalies. Watson's 1882 office telephone is a 1940'south model. Inspector Lestrade seems to go well-nigh armed in contradiction to standard British Police practise. The actor playing Sherlock (Ben Syder) is two or 3 inches shorter than the thespian playing Dr. Watson (Gareth David-Lloyd). The 'monsters' are all treated as constructs, simply no effort is made to detail their capabilities or inner workings. The whole discipline is but left to the villain'south marvelous medical discoveries and techniques.
The final events contain several severe contradictions equally regards who is where and how they got there. Time, distance and locations seem to exist ignored in the unabridged sequence of events leading up to the climax. Characters are moved effectually with no business concern as to how they traveled from one place to another. It is possible that there are explanations, but none are offered in the cut I saw.
Reviewed by: Philip One thousand. Jones, Jan, 2010.
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Quite Skillful
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I take seen quite a few low upkeep scifi/horror movies lately and well-nigh the highest rating I gave any of them was a three, but this Sherlock Holmes was good, very skillful. I had never seen or heard of whatever of the actors, but they were all too very good, especially Watson who did a fine task. Holmes was as usual, quirky and big-headed, but then, that's how he is supposed to be. The sets and settings were very nice and near of the outdoor scenes were beautiful. But the all-time were the special effects: the monsters and the Rube Goldberg machines. My husband similar the dragon best, but as a dinosaur fan, my favorite was the so called raptor. I say 'so called' because it did non look at all like a raptor, merely it did expect like a beautifully done miniature T-Rex. We both liked all of the Rube Goldberg machinery used past the master criminal. If yous become a chance, watch this Sherlock Holmes. Yous'll probably like it like nosotros did.
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An Unmitigated Mess
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If you're looking for a Sherlock Holmes gamble... this is not one.
Don't get me wrong, in some ways it's an beauteous effort for an Aviary product - they actually take a costume budget, for 1 thing. Ben Syder makes a adept effort at portraying Holmes, only his reedy vox makes him hard to have seriously in the role, fifty-fifty before the plot goes off the rail. Every bit for the plot, Holmes' skills as a detective don't end upwardly counting for much, given that the most crucial elements of the mystery accept him entirely by surprise and he ends up resolving matters mostly by style of an aeriform battle betwixt a clockwork dragon and a super-powered hot air airship with an on-lath Gatling gun.
Anachronisms abound, just there's no betoken in getting worked up about them in a movie that features dinosaur attacks on the streets of Whitechapel. It would never accept been a serious motion-picture show, but it could have been effective as pure over-the-pinnacle amusement if anyone involved in writing the plot had actually read a Sherlock Holmes story at whatever betoken. Instead, the plot hinges upon Holmes having an older brother named Thorpe who was one time a Scotland Yard inspector. Don't look for him in whatever of the books; they made him upward out of nowhere. Also, Holmes' name is Robert for some reason.
And and so there'due south also the problem that most plot elements are never explained. Once the movie has successfully gotten to its action phase, all bets are off, and the audience is left to speculate for themselves as to how things are supposed to fit together. Which would be forgivable in a pure action moving picture, merely merely doesn't work in a mystery, especially not i ostensibly starring Sherlock Holmes.
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The Asylum's worst ever picture show
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I admit to having a soft spot for the various giant monster movies put out by The Aviary, equally they recall the g old monster-stomping days of kaiju movie house despite their inherent cheesiness and lack of decent production values. However, Asylum's rip-off of the Guy Ritchie blockbuster is a step too far, and SHERLOCK HOLMES is inevitably the worst always try I've seen at bringing Holmes to the screen.
This isn't a Holmes adaptation at all, rather a cheesy amateur production somehow filmed in Wales. You accept a couple of apprentice theatrics guys playing Holmes and Watson with the fakest-sounding accents ever and a couple of rooms standing in for the moving picture'south locations. Everything is dark and retrograde, and the plot is complete nonsense, throwing a bad CGI dinosaur into the mix for some reason. It'south embarrassing to watch, bluntly, and by far the worst thing I've always seen The Asylum put their name as well.
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Because the source,THIS IS very true-blue !
Starring: Dominic Keating,Gareth David-Lloyd Written by : Paul Bales Directed by : Rachel Lee Goldenberg
A Movie well done & worth mentioning ! Bandage and scenery seem perfect for story,Filmed in Wales. Was actually thrown off,When a RAPTOR was spied and so the plot twist "NICE" ! Must admit the DRAGON and BALLOON fought for my attention,Neat fight sequence. There is even a reference to IRONMAN or is it SPRING HEEL JACK…Loved this impact. Watson over again,Has the virtually to do and maybe its best,After wife banned me from watching TORCHWOOD ! To sum upwards,YES…This is amusement,Like we haven't seen in a great while.
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