arts moves as Jackie Chan. However, Guy Ritchie did a good job working Holmes thinking process into his fighting which made it easier to swallow.

He and Irene Adler are an item and Adler, rather than being a dancer who gets into a scrape with a Bohemian king, is an international criminal.

Holmes' traditional portrayal as a drug addict is gone. And instead, in this movie, we find Holmes having to guard against Watson's gambling habit to make sure Mrs. Hudson gets the rent money.

Holmes is intentionally trying to sabotage the engagement of Mary Marston, not so in the books.

There are other differences. Holmes definitely doesn't act like he lived in the Victorian era for one. Despite these issues, I found myself oddly enjoying the movie. Perhaps, it's because there'sto most people, so while movies and television can play with Holmes' character, they can't really redefine it in the eyes of the public, just as Patrick Stewart's King of Texas didn't make anyone thing King Lear was really set in Texas.

Similarly, Robert Downey, Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes could best be understood by bringing one of fiction's greatest heroes to the biggest moneymaking arena there is: The Summer Popcorn movie. By this account, Sherlock Holmes was a fine film. It was an action packed thriller with plenty of plot twists and engaging story that holds your attention to the end. If there's any film I'd compare it to, it'd be be the Basil Rathbone vehicle The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes which was a solid action thriller for 1939. Sherlock