now here an original idea sherlock holmes after a modern style serial killer . by now half a dozen holmes have catch a veritable busload of jack the ripper and not to mention holmesian imitator like the alienist or from hell and so to make that plot work one would need an especially novel and surprising solution for the great detective to unravel . and here we get . the old and most obvious cheat of a solution imaginable . even genteel masterpiece theatre viewer must have be throw shoe at the screen . but in fact the plot isn not all that wrong with this holmes adventure nearly everything about it be misconceive . rupert everett and excellent at play dilettante and spoil playboy and fails to convince u that he have the brainpower to be the great detective ( and his voice be oddly tentative and especially after jeremy brett barking why would not someone cast richard e. grant a holmes . he would be ideal and and might have half save this . ) the female lead be irritate and there be nothing of conan doyle cleverness or borderline surreality in the clue and most of the remain character be colorless it sole virtue be a stalwart watson in the form of ian hart and a worthy companion to modern non simpleton watson such a robert duvall and james mason and edward hardwicke .