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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783286884
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783286880
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 75302
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 2002
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Quite possibly the worst Sherlock Holmes film ever made!
A lurid, seamy, thoroughly revolting exercise in gratuitous excess. For anyone who knows anything about Holmes and Watson, let alone someone who loves the characters and Doyle's stories, this film is a form of cruel and unusual punishment. It should be an embarrassment to everyone involved in the project. "Holmes" fails to observe, fails to deduce based upon observations, and acts impulsively, irrationally, incompetently and dishonorably -- none of which the "real" Sherlock Holmes would have ever ... Read More
Rating:  - good quality, one problem
This DVD was generally of good quality, but I could never get all the way through one scene without it freezing and skipping. This fact was not revealed to me before I bought it.
Rating:  - It's just not interesting
Setting aside the gross inconsistencies with the original stories, this film does little to distinguish itself from any run-of-the-mill made-for-cable movie. The actors are adequate, and the production values are adequate, but the script is dull and predictable. There is nothing to hook the viewer in at all. The makers seem to concede this fact by throwing in plenty of cheescake (various women are eager to bed young Sherlock) that serves no narrative purpose and does nothing to add depth to any of ... Read More
Rating: - A revisionist look at a young Sherlock Holmes, but overwrought and without cleverness or style
I can almost hear the pitch: "Let's make a TV movie about Sherlock Holmes just as he's starting out as a private detective...but let's make him so revisionist that all the old-fogey traditionalists will pop their belly-buttons. We'll put in sex, heavy breathing, sword fights, graphic drug use and more sex. We'll make Holmes an anti-hero. And we'll create so much buzz the follow-up movies will be as good as an annuity for us." They forgot something. While a revisionist look at old heros and old plays ... Read More
Rating: - (1.5 STARS) Shallowest Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes film `Case of Evil' is, as the tagline says, about the `past' of the greatest detective. The made-for-TV film is based on the completely original story set in Holmes's younger days when he met Doctor Watson. I admit the idea itself is not a bad one. What is terribly annoying is the way they put together the clichéd elements which you might have seen in the usual crime dramas, totally ignoring the Arthur Conan Doyle's books and our feelings towards the much-loved world of the sleuth. ... Read More
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