Case of Evil - Sherlock Movie, 2002

I watched it because I thought the hero looked cute. What did I expect? A good Sherlock Holmes? L.O.L.

Let's be clear: I'm not against infractions to the Canon, if they're pertinent and well handled. Those clearly weren't. 

- Sherlock is young: ok, all right, why not? He had to be young someday. 

- He's brilliant, but no-one gets him: fine. A tat emo in this movie, but he's making his debuts as a detective, so maybe.

- He's a ladykiller: err, what? Sherlock, interested in women? Adler aside, he despises them and bodily urges. Did you go for lady killer? That would have been at least probable.

- He got into the investigation business to avenge family: NO. Sherlock Holmes is NOT an avenging family kind of person. In fact, aside from Mycroft, does he even care about family? About people, yes, maybe, a bit. Sometimes. But about persons he's chained to by society? Bah.

- He's against drugs. Sherlock. is. against. drugs.

- He's got morals. I am now officially crying. 

-About Watson: he's a doctor. An (ex)military man? Well, if you believe he's still in shape to run, maybe. But Watson was often disregarded into Sherlock films, so that's not even a surprise. 

-Moriarty... is not clever, just a vile drug dealer. I'm not even proceeding with this list anymore. 

This is NOT a Sherlock movie. An action movie, perhaps, if you count as action a bit of firing at the end. This is the very classic story of the teenage-boy who seeks recognition from his father (who's dead, but conveniently reimplaced by Watson as a father figure), from society (by murdering bad men and banging women), from his loved-one (even though I'm not sure why he loves her, they've only met for one day and she's said like five uninteresting words to him -oops, wait, my mistake, she's pretty).

To conclude: Sherlock is a poor traumatised as a child genius, he sleeps with girls, he fights bad men, people eventually like him and come to think that he is a heroe.  

Bad reason to watch the Canon be raped: Sherlock's pretty. (I did say it was a bad reason).

Good reason to watch this movie: as bad as it is, it suspect it might have taken a role into the recent turn of events concerning the modern interpretation of the Canon. A younger Sherlock, a more action-like movie about his adventures: isn't it what the 2009 Sherlock Holmes and the Sherlock BBC series are pointing at now? Maybe this was the first attempt to renew our interpretation of the Canon. The failed first attempt.

The last word: I won't even bother writing it myself:
"[L]et's just accept the idea that Sherlock Holmes needs to be sexed up and made relevant for a twenty-first century audience. Do writer/producer Piers Ashworth and director Graham Theakston manage to make an entertaining movie out of that? No. In their hands, Sherlock becomes a generic hero tortured by the past and Moriarty becomes a thug without any sort of air of mystery about him." Jay Seaver of eFilmCritic.