it be a cold and snowy day in early december . lack of fund have force my old school to close . i be be send to a new one in the middle of term . i be accustom to the open and relaxed expanse of the country and and now and i be in the heart of london at the height of the victorian era . the street be teem with every activity imaginable . i be very take by what i saw . a i step from my carriage and the sight of my new school fill me with fear and apprehension and yet and i be sweep with a wave of curiosity . however and nothing could prepare me for the extraordinary adventure that lay ahead and or the extraordinary individual who would change my life . that an old john watson speaking in a narrative voice over and and moment later at the brompton school common be go to see young watson and play by alan cox at 15 and meet sherlock holmes and play by nicholas rowe at 19. watson have have his trunk deliver and holmes be scratch away horribly at a violin . holmes stop and nearly smash the thing in frustration . i should have master the damn thing by now and he cry . how long have you be play . watson asks . three day . the first three quarter of the movie be a wonderful holmsian adventure and full of deduction and grow friendship and a we see young holmes exercise his slightly arrogant intelligence to put an insufferably superior student name dudley in his place and assist an eccentric inventor and find tentative victorian love with the inventor niece and discover a pattern of assassination in the death of four elderly men and deal with a lazy lestrade and a friendly fencing master and and establish a friendship with his young follower and watson . the high point be probably holmes acceptance of a challenge from dudley to locate where dudley have hide the school fence trophy . in no more than 60 minute . the game be afoot a holmes examine minute particle of . what . and locate snowy footprint in the school quadrangle and examine the school kitchen . all with the clock tick away and with the school student race after him and with watson in the lead . it clever and exit . a the old watson say in recollection when holmes find the trophy with second to spare and it be a wonderful and heroic moment for holmes . but little do he know that his amazing power and talent would soon be put to a much great test and a test of terrify and deadly proportion . and with that be off into a case of murderous hallucination with all sort of scary special effect and of a deadly egyptian cult in the heart of london and of young girl use for human sacrifice and of a cauldron of revenge . and we realize that we have move from a young sherlock holmes to a young indiana jones . from a loving and clever imagining of holmes and watson meeting at school and solve a vicious and exotic series of killing and be up to our neck in the calculated hokum of a boy own adventure and courtesy of executive producer steven spielberg and assist by george lucas special effect studio . we even have an e. t. moment when young holmes and watson take off on a pedal power fly device to soar over london at night in pursuit of the villain . the first part of the movie be so good that it just about disguise the calculated playing with the audience build up to the conclusion . nicholas rowe and tall and lean and and alan cox and round and quizzical and be first rate a young holmes and young watson . they have continue to act but never have good role . michael hordern and who give u the narrative voice of the old watson and provide much of the heart of the movie . we can imagine an elderly watson look back at this first case with affection and appreciation . at the end of the movie holmes be leave brompton school while watson will graduate and go on to medical study . watson say goodbye to his friend and stand near a holmes enter the horse drawn carriage . we hear the old watson tell u and a i watch holmes settle into his seat and a sudden feeling come over me that i would most certainly be see him again . so ended my first adventure with mister sherlock holmes . a i watch his carriage disappear into the distance and i realize that i have forget to thank him . he have take a weak and frightened boy and make him into a courageous and strong man . my heart soar . i be fill with confidence . i be ready for whatever mystery or danger lay ahead . i be ready to take on the great and most exciting adventure of them all and and i know it be bind to involve sherlock holmes .