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Rating:  - PIEKENBROCK'S POPPYCOCK!
I'm afraid I must take exception with Ryan Piekenbrock's review of this sorry mess! Far from Sherlock's best, CASE OF EVIL is closer to CONAN THE BARBARIAN than CONAN DOYLE. Piekenbrock's review is rife with pithy and pretentious posturing in a sorry attempt to paint a Picasso with little more than good intentions and a pail of panda piss; the only mystery with CASE OF EVIL is why anyone would bother watching the thing...
Rating:  - A more Human Holmes
In this fantastic made for TV adventure, we get to meet the Great Detective early in his career, and find out the basis for many of the things we have come to associate with the character. James D'Arcy, who did a wonderful job of portraying Lt. Tom Pullings in Master and Commander: The far side of the world, presents us with a Holmes who is actually HUMAN, as opposed to the emotionless, walking deductive machine as done by Jeremy Brett and others. His Holmes has uncertainies, even faults. He drinks, smokes, and even womanizes, as evidenced by a scene where after meeting two adoring young ladies outside Baker Street, he invites them up for a drink and as he begins to kiss and cuddle with one, her companion stands up and starts removing her dress and lacy victorian undergarments until she's nude. But this is a Holmes who is also driven by vengence to get the man responsible for crippling his brother Mycroft; namely Professor Moriarty. Holmes catches up with his nemisis early in the film and aparently kills him, leading to his public aclaim, but things are not as they seem, and Holmes later learns the Proffesor is alive and well and behind a rash of murders of Opium dealers in London. The chase is on, climaxing in a sword battle high in the interior of Big Ben.
Besides D'Arcy, the film has a good cast of supporting Characters. Watson is working as a CSI style autopsy surgeon at the yard, Moriarty has just the right sort of pompus evil about him, and Holmes is given a tragic love interest in an actress who once worked for Moriarty as a pawn to fool Holmes, but now, aids him in his quest to bring the Criminal Genius to justice, and when she is murdered before Holme's eyes, it lights the fire of vengence that will fuel the Detective's pursuit of the Napoleon of Crime all through his career.
Granted, some Holmes purists might have some exceptions to how this film deviates from Doyle's original take on the character and seting, but it is still a good gripping thriller nonetheless and I highly reccomend it.
Rating:  - did moriarty make this one?!
this isn't sherlock holmes! i managed to get twenty minutes into this thing and then i had to turn off. this is so incredibly off the mark it's ridiculous! worst "holmes" movie ever! i shall never say a bad word about matt frewer's eccentric kid oriented holmes again.
Rating: - Confused mess indeed (not the move but the DVD product)
I liked the movie; I have seen it on TV two years ago. But watch out. It may happen to you if you try order the same product from amazon.com. I have placed my order with an Amazon Merchant, and what happened. Instead of getting a brand new product, with following attributes (DVD Release Date: August 24, 2004; Closed-captioned, Widescreen, as it is stated), I got NO Closed-captioned, NO Widescreen product (DVD Release Date: 2003) in a shabby box. It was NOT in the original packing and it was NOT new but already used copy! I really felt cheated.
Rating: - confused mess
I'm usually a sucker for all things Sherlockian. I loved Young Sherlock Holmes, Murder By Decree, The Seven Percent Solution, A Study In Terror.. but I didn't care for this "Holmes" movie. Where's Sherlock? He ain't here! They didn't seem to know what they were doing when they put this together. Somebody saw From Hell too many times and combined that with James Bond and forgot to put Sherlock Holmes in the movie.
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