Cryogenic Holmes and teenage Holmes.
michael
The first one is Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993) . In this film a young
female doctor calls on one of her elderly patients, a Mrs Hudson, only to
discover that she has a cryogenically frozen man in her basement. A power
outage brings the man alive, and she soon discovers that the frozen man is
none other than Sherlock Holmes himself. Holmes soon discover that while he
has been asleep a decendant of Moriarity has stolen his stash of jewels. He
then starts to invstigate with the help of his female doctor, but soon
realises that the world he has woken up to, San Fransisco in 1993, is not
the same as edwardian London. This is a pretty harmless Tv film starring
Anthony Higgins as Holmes. It is easily watched by children, and soon
forgotten.
The second Holmes I have seen is Sherlock Holmes, a case of evil (2002), a
film completely rejected by reviewers at Imdb.com. I didn't find it all that
bad actually. Holmes is young and just setting up shop in Baker Street. We
get the story about his brother Mycroft and Moriarity and how Moriarity
wronged them. We learn how Holmes met Watson, and how they came to set up a
partnership. It is the only film I have seen in which Holmes actually goes
out drunk and picks
up women, has sex with them and dumps them in the morning. The character is
slightly different from what we are used to. But if you accept that Holmes
has had his share of youthful indiscretions, the film is not badely made.
The guy who plays Moriarity is fairly good. Anyway, the film is quite
watchable dispite the fact that Holmes is slightly out of character. He is
not yet the dry super genius we meet in the Doyle films.
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