Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) is thrown into a hole of nothingness when his companion Watson (Ian Hart) plans to marry, and not only a woman - a gender Holmes never really understood or much cared for - but also a psyschoanalyst. Holmes tries to fill this hole with drug and alcohol abuse, so much so that it worries even Watson, who should have other worries with his wedding approaching fast, and thus he tries to get Holmes engaged on a seemingly routine murder case of a young prostitute - which Holmes in no time at all identifies as a daughter of aristocracy, and soon enough, another girl in her cdircles is murdered as well - which really does put Holmes back into action and soon he starts hunting the murderer whoever it is as ruthless as ever, using the second girl's sister Roberta (Perdita Weeks) as bait and almost losing another girl, 13 year old Imogen (Rachel Hurd-Wood), to the killer as well ... and yet the killer sets her free, apparently because she had a club foot - so the killer, Holmes deducts, is a foot fetishist. Soon enough, Imogen has identified the killer, Charles Allen (Michael Fassbender), the footman and lover of the first murdered girl's mother, but their is one problem: He has airtight alibis for all the killings and his fingerprints don't match those at the crimescenes ... and yet Holmes believes her - and figures he has to have an identical twin, who just happens to be a serial killer. Nobody believes Holmes' far-fetched theor, but he sets a trap for Charles Allen (or his brother) anyways, again using Roberta as bait, and the trap actually springsw ... yet again on the wrong Charles Allen, so his brother manages to kidnap Roberta after all, and almost kill her when Holmes and Watson finally catch up with him and see to it that justice prevails.

As a murder mystery, this is a lesser film: It's solution is way too far-fetched, Holmes' ways of deduction aren't always too clear, and the culprit seems to be pulled out of the hat rather than anything else - and yet as a Sherlock Holmes-film, this one is actually pretty interesting, a re-interpretation of the character that's modern without losing sight of its source material, that uses satire without trying too hard to be funny, and that'S fast-paced without outrunning its about 100-year old source material. And a great cast doesn't hurt much eiter, even Ian Hart, who totally sucked as Watson in Hound of the Baskervilles only two years prior to this one, really finds into his role this time around.

In all, probably not the best Sherlock Holmes-film around, but an interesting and unusual look at a well-known character.

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