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| Ian McKellen as the retired Sherlock Holmes |
Ian McKellen delivers a masterful performance as the retired Sherlock Holmes in Bill Condon's Mr Holmes. This film is an exquisite period piece sympathetic to and retaining the authenticity of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle. In this film Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) is long retired, aged 93 with fading memory and living a comfortable existence in the English countryside tending his bees. His peers including Dr Watson have long passed-on and the only regular company he enjoys is his widowed housekeeper Mrs Munro (Laura Linney) and her young son Roger (Milo Parker) who displays a strong interest in his cases and one unresolved case in particular from decades earlier. Holmes is haunted by this case which involved a private investigation into the suspicion of a husband as to a possible murder plot by the man's wife. With the encouragement of Roger (who also assists with tending the bees) Holmes revisits the evidence and material of the case finding the answer which had so eluded him over many years.
This is a film with high production values, photographed in quintessentially identifiable cultural locations in the United Kingdom (the White cliffs of Dover are particularly striking) and worth seeing on the large cinema screen.
This is a film with high production values, photographed in quintessentially identifiable cultural locations in the United Kingdom (the White cliffs of Dover are particularly striking) and worth seeing on the large cinema screen.
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