FILM REVIEW ROUND-UP: SHERLOCK HOLMES...

Sunday December 27 2009 byHenry Fitzherbert

THE modern movie holy grail (the franchise) has resulted in one of the more unlikely cinematic makeovers of modern times: Sherlock Holmes turned into a gun-toting, bare-knuckle fighting action hero who wears a fedora and is played by a Yank, Robert Downey Jr .

Can Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s genius detective Sherlock Holmes be reinvented as a Hollywood hero and become a seasonal fixture on our cinema screens?

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