{"id":12583,"date":"2015-07-23T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2019-08-12T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:33:52","slug":"movie-review-mr-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/23\/movie-review-mr-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Mr. Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n \n
Mr. Holmes (2015)<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n
\"Mr.<\/td>\n Rating:<\/b> 7.7\/10 (2528 votes)
Director:<\/b> Bill Condon
Writer:<\/b> Mitch Cullin (based on the novel by), Arthur Conan Doyle (characters), Jeffrey Hatcher, Mitch Cullin (novel)
Stars:<\/b> Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Hiroyuki Sanada
Runtime:<\/b> 104 min
Rated:<\/b> PG
Genre:<\/b> Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released:<\/b> 17 Jul 2015<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Plot:<\/b> An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, so there was no way I was not going to see the talented and generally wonderful Sir Ian McKellen take his turn at portraying the great detective. The movie is not based on Conan Doyle’s stories and therefore basically fan fiction – but very good fan fiction.<\/p>\n

The main plotline tells of us a 93-year-old Holmes who returns from post-war Japan (where he was looking for prickly pear to help restore his decreasing mental faculties, a story we learn in flashbacks) to his cottage in the South of England, where he lives with his bees, being looked after by a long-suffering housekeeper and her son. The latter is pretty much Holmes’ only friend, as well as his sounding board as the old man tries to remember the very last case he took before retiring. A man who made his living knowing everything<\/em>, Holmes now cannot remember what it was about that case that made him leave London behind and hide himself with his bees.<\/p>\n

We as the audience learn about this second storyline, set 30 years before, right after Watson left Baker Street to get married, right along with Holmes and young Roger, who hero-worships the old detective and does everything he can do help him. Kid characters in movies are hit and miss (well, mostly miss) for me, but Roger is smart and endearing without being annoying. The characters in the London-based case story feel less three-dimensional, more like a classic Sherlock Holmes story, right until the very emotional conclusion. <\/p>\n

By this point we have come to care very much for Holmes, thanks to McKellen’s touching portrayal of the old man’s struggle with his failing body and mind, and all three storylines fit together to make a beautiful picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, so there was no way I was not going to see the talented and generally wonderful Sir Ian McKellen take his turn at portraying the great detective. The movie is not based on Conan Doyle’s stories and therefore basically fan fiction – but very good fan fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12584,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12583\/revisions\/12584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}