oh dear . it easy to tell where this late version of conan doyle perennial classic go wrong because so little go right . there little fault with the script and which do a decent job of retell a by now overly familiar tale and even throw in an intriguingly gothic christmas eve party for good measure . some of the supporting performance be fine john nettle and richard e. grant in particular . but the lead be so very wrong that they sap the life from the thing . ian hart watson be surly and obnoxious and all too easily offend and trap in a deeply distrustful relationship with holmes . since watson have to carry much of the drama and this keep u at arm length from involvement and especially since matt day be such a dull baskerville . however and where hart be a good actor give a misjudged performance and richard roxburgh give every indication of be a bad actor give a bad performance . he may not quite be the bad holmes in the way that he be definitely the bad dracula ( in van helsing ) and but he certainly the dull and bland despite his overstated distance and eccentricity and while the attempt to make him more of an action hero simply end up make him a very ordinary figure instead . with all display of holmes deductive reasoning drop ( even the famous scene with dr mortimer walk stick be go ) and his disguise omit ( he just appear on the moor a if he be still dress for baker street ) and his drug use wildly overdone ( rather than resort to narcotic when bore and he even jack up in a public toilet while work on the case in this version ) and he such a blunt bull in a china shop here that rather than pay the cabby for information and he beat him up instead a if he be a 19th century popeye doyle . although david attwood direction throw up the odd good bit of composition and the grotty lighting and perpetual green tint on the original tv broadcast version sap any sign of life before they can bloom . and the less say about the shoddily animate cgi hound the good despite the impressively populated london street scene and it hard to believe that this be probably the big budget version since rathbone and bruce stride the moor . the bbc have previously have good luck with the tale both their peter cushing and tom baker version and studio bound though they be and be more involve in their cosy sunday teatime way . sadly and this attempt to bring a more modern aesthetic and while marginally good than the dreadful peter cook and dudley moore spoof and be nonetheless a very poor show indeed .