woeful and childish supposition of the early year of arthur conan doyle celebrate sleuth sherlock holmes and which find the school boy detective and his new fond chum watson hot on the heel of a sadistic egyptian cult who have be kidnap young girl for sacrifice and and kill off a group of elderly gentleman against whom they hold a terrible grudge . chris columbus story ( writer of a night on the town and home alone which be both much more fun ) be naive and silly and borrow far too much from other spielberg production and indiana jones and the temple of doom be one of them . the cast be unable to lift proceeding also and and one have to wonder how a director of barry levinson class ever become involve in this . the only thing leave to do be shake one head and hope that mr. doyle isn not watch . friday and august 12 and 1994 video .