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Poor Sherlock Holmes has been done and done and done even more.

Here we are just after the great teevee series with Benedict Cumberbatch with the bodies hardly cool and Ian McClelland climbs on for one more go at the great detective. This time in his dotage.

Mr. Holmes (2015)

Several stories overlap with no confusion and the necessary bases are touched.

It is fun to watch McClelland who is old to begin with play even older as Holmes about to kick off.

None of it is memorable and no one will care about the solution to the mysteries really. But it is fun to watch a master actor go through his paces.

Laura Linney appears as a dowdy harpy housekeeper. Wasted.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films