Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes

he latest film adaptation of Conan Doyle’s classic characters has, unsurprisingly for a Guy Richie film, dispensed with deerstalkers and magnifying glasses, cool, aloof logic and ‘cat-like’ cleanliness in favour of a Holmes who is an extremely capable and vicious fighter, a decadent, dandy sort of eccentric who lets the organised chaos of his room extend to his life and hygiene, and almost makes it seem that Holmes is in imitation of House, rather than the other way around. Still, the re-imagining was a good one for the current cinema-going audience, the visuals were sublime, with lovely recreations of familiar streets as they were a century ago, and the characters are likeable. The plot was slightly too ropey and reliant on coincidence, but overall, it was well worth seeing.