Showing posts with label a slight trick of the mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a slight trick of the mind. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 June 2015

Review - Mr Holmes

Mr Holmes is a British-American crime drama/mystery film directed by Bill Condon and is adapted from the book 'A Slight Trick of the Mind' by Mitch Cullen, it stars Ian McKellan as Sherlock Holmes and Laura Linney as Mrs. Munro.

Mr Holmes is about an elderly Sherlock Holmes living in Sussex with his housekeeper Mrs. Munro and her son Rodger in the late 1940's, The interesting thing about the plot is that Sherlock is losing his memory, the smartest man in the world is forgetting things, its a thing I've never seen any Sherlock book or film show before and thought they handled it very well. The film jumps around with time, with 3 different sections; the present, in which Sherlock has just returned from Japan and is trying to remember an old case of his, a few weeks ago, when he was in Japan and in the 30 years in the past, showing Sherlock's old case as he is remembering it, they juggle the 3 story-lines in a way that you always know when and where you are.