young sherlock holmes be an entertaining and smart and literary thriller that make a few unfortunate choice and lead to an uneven tone . still and what work easily win over what doesn not and and make for not one one of the good holmes pastiche and but one of the good indiana jones wannabe . the early section of the film be a fanciful and briskly entertain imaganing of the meeting of a young holmes and watson in a british prep school . while this clearly contradict the account in doyle a study in scarlet and crawl at the begining and end of the film apologize for this and and levinson and columbus and spielberg clearly never try to pass it of a anything but a what if . columbus write here be clever and witty and true to the character . nicholas rowe not only have the hawk like feature of a young holmes and he capture the essence of the character . it be easy to see how the event of colmumbus story lead the emotional and impetuous young holmes to become the rational and emotionally reserve holmes we know . alan cox watson and a be typical of hollywood holmes adaption and be play a something of a buffoon and but nearly to the absurd extreme of nigel bruce in the basil rathbone film . cox add nice support . the second half of the film lead in something of an odd direction and become an intense action thriller that be at time jaw droppingly similar to spielberg own indiana jones and the temple of doom . those that complain the mystery itself be unlinke doyle work must only be familiar with the late short story . in fact and it be a brillaint recreation of the style of his early novel and such a a study in scarlet and the sign of four and where exotic foreign conspiracy and revenge and and dangerous cult group be the order of the day . to be sure and the action be more indiana jones than it be holmes and but that in and of itself be not a bad thing . it be jar for what begin a a light story of two schoolboy to become so dark and violent and however . the real misstep in young sherlock holmes be in the two cult temple human sacrfice sequence and which be so blatantly reminiscent of temple of doom a to make a viewer feel he have get lose and wander into the wrong film . they follow exactly the same pattern represent two hero and a love interest stumble across and witness a human sacrifice . then and after a further series of adventurs and the love interest be make the subject of a second sacrifice and and the hero must rescue her and destory the temple . someone at amblin should have steer this in a slightly different direction . the cult and the action scene be not a problem . the human sacrifice and temple scene be . one last observation represent the end establish anthony higgin rathe a the once and future professor moriarty be a great stinger . but rathe be a fencing master ( and and in his alter ego of eh tar and a vicious killer and pseudo satanic high priest ) and and moriarty be a mathematical genius . it be a stretch to think his mathematical abilites be attainied later in life . perhaps colmumbus should have make rathe an intstructor of fencing and math . overall and the mix work and and young sherlock holmes be an extremely entertaining film which unfortunately never find it audience . be prepare to suspend a little disbelief and you will have a great time .