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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
UK/USA 2004
produced by
Elinor Day, Greg Brenman (executive), Rebecca Eaton (executive), Gareth Neame (executive) for Tiger Aspect, BBC, WGBH
directed by Simon Cellan Jones
starring Rupert Everett, Ian Hart, Neil Dudgeon, Michael Fassbender, Perdita Weeks, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Nicholas Palliser, Anne Carroll, Tamsin Eberton, Julian Wadham, Penny Downie, Jennifer Moule, Eleanor David, John Cunningham, Jonathan Hyde, Giina Beck, Helen McCrory, Andrew Wisher, Stewart Bevan, Anthony Cozens, Guy Henry, Christine Kavanagh, Roger Monk, Jonathan Emmett, Max Harvey, Alisha Smith
screenplay by Allan Cubitt, based on a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Adrian Johnston
Sherlock Holmes
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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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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