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Apr 12, 2018LibraryUser53 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I quite liked this movie. Definitely should be considered for dedicated Sherlock Holmes fans, especially those appreciating the original Conan-Doyle stories. The acting is well-done, and I enjoyed the screenwriter's imagining an older Holmes. On the downside, the non-linear presentation makes following the plot a bit of a challenge, with many flashbacks in both time and location. It's all a little over-done and unnecessarily confusing imo. And Holmes fans who prefer the modern Cumberbatch Holmes (BBC) and Robert Downy Jr's theatrical Holmes may find the story of an elderly Holmes a little slow going. In the plot Holmes is 93, having retired and living at his beach cottage in the Dover the past 30 years, and enjoying his hobbies of bee-keeping and gardening. Senile dementia has been setting in over the years, and he realizes it. The royal jelly -- a product from his bee hives -- is no longer working , so he travels to Japan to obtain another anti-dementia remedy, a prickly-ash derivative, only available there. He wants to forestall the disease until he can record for posterity his last case; one he considers to be his worst failure. Occurring 30 years prior, a young husband asks Holmes for detective help to discover the reason for his wife's unusual behavior. She seems obsessed with playing an off-beat musical instrument, the glass armonica, and with her gypsy-like instructor. The husband wants to know why.