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Mr. Holmes
UK / USA 2015
produced by Iain Canning, Anne Carey, Emile Sherman, Zanne Devine (executive), Aviv Giladi (executive), Vince Holden (executive), Christine Langan (executive), Amy Nauiokas (executive) for Twenty First City, Archer Gray, See-Saw Films, FilmNation Entertainment/BBC, Miramax, Roadside Attractions
directed by Bill Condon
starring Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, Roger Allam, Phil Davis, Frances de la Tour, Charles Maddox, Takako Akashi, Zak Shukor, John Sessions, Michael Culkin, David Foxxe, Oliver Devoti, Mike Burnside, Nicholas Rowe, Sam Coulson, Frances Barber, Hermione Corfield, Kit Connor, Zoe Rainey, Eileen Davies, Colin Starkey, Sarah Crowden
screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the novel A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Carter Burwell
Sherlock Holmes
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's 1947, and Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) has long retired from
sleuthing, being 93 at present. He moves to Sussex where he intends to
keep bees, as a special sort of honey is said to slow the effects from his
oncoming dementia. Also he intends to rewrite the accounts of his last
case, which he thinks Watson has sensationalized beyond comprehension -
but his failing memory seems to stand in his way. However he does make
friends with young Roger (Milo Parker), son of his housekeeper Mrs Munro
(Laura Linney), and finds in him an adept student in beekeeping. Mrs Munro
finds herself less and less comfortable looking after Holmes, especially
since his deteriorating health is taking a toll on her, but Roger enjoys
the old man's company, and vice-versa. Amid the tensions between Holmes
and the housekeeper, tragedy strikes when Roger is found unconscious near
the beehives, almost stung to death. After her son is rushed to the
hospital, Mrs Munro wants to burn the beehives, but is stopped by Homes,
who in a last effort of deduction can prove to her it wasn't bees but
wasps that almost killed Roger, as Roger tried to get rid of a wasps'
nest, and the animals didn't take kindly to it. Holmes has by now noticed
how much he needs and enjoys the company of Mrs Munro and Roger, so in
return for their staying he promises to make them the chief benificiaries
of his will ... Now making a movie about a post-sleuthing Sherlock
Holmes sounds like an interesting premise, and telling the film on
three narrative levels (besides the main plot and the subplot about
Holmes' last case there is also a narrative thread about his trip to
post-bomb Hiroshima that features Hiroyuki Sanada) sure is an interesting
approach. Plus having Nicholas Rowe from Young Sherlock Holmes give
a cameo appearance as playing Holmes in the movie-within-a-movie that (the
real) Holmes watches is a lovely Easter Egg for sure. Unfortunately
though, as a whole Mr. Holmes just isn't a very good movie as it
essentially throws its main character into a feel-good story where Holmes
finally finds his love for humankind rather than making use of the
character's more interesting and exciting aspects. In fact, Mr. Holmes
is basically just a very dull movie that falls quite a bit too short of
its promise.
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