Very entertaining film and excellent plot which keeps you guessing, plus Robert Downey Jr was the perfectly cast Sherlock Holmes.

The sequel is due out in 2011 so get your popcorn ready, folks!

Last evening I watched the first episode of the new BBC series Sherlock. I won't be watching any more episodes. Terrible acting, worse writing, hackneyed characters and plots. The actor playing Watson steals the show from the campy, Doctor Who-ish actor playing Holmes. Watson apparently is back from Afghanistan and secrety misses the war. Holmes is hooked on nicotine patches and considers himself a "high functioning sociopath". Lestrade seems to be a standard plodding police detective character absent from another show. Mycroft is a senior MI5/6 man who is surveilling Sherlock, doesn't trust him, and is openly hostile to him. Two junior policemen with Lestrade accuse Holmes of being a "psychopath" each time they see him, always at the top of their lungs. Holmes is openly rude towards the police, to the extent that it completely undermines the idea they might want his help. Various people ask if Holmes and Watson are a gay couple. Everyone, EVERYONE in the show is text messaging each other constantly for no apparent reason. I am told by a friend that when Moriarty shows up in the third episode he is a 25 year old version of The Joker.

That's 90 minutes of my life wasted.

You have been warned.

I haven't read the novels nor the short stories but the movie is definitely entertaining. Superb acting of Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. I highly recommend it.That's an interesting thing for the film to imply. The core theme in the books, and indeed what Holmes himself admits is his USP over Scotland Yard, is that "I adapt my theory to the facts, not the facts to my theory" - this quote comes in almost half the stories, if I recall well.