Mr Holmes was a pleasant surprise. Ian McKellan is a fantastic Sherlock. The film is very thoughtful and touching. It follows an aging Sherlock, looking back on his final case. The film goes through his process of memory recovery. But his memory is failing and it is deeply affecting to watch a great mind in deterioration and then to watch an old man evolve. It lacks the glamour that we've become accustomed to in the most recent adaptations of the detective (Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr.). It lacks the brilliant intricacy of the cases in those stories, but rather this is about solving his own case. What it lacks in flash it more than makes up for with emotion.
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