Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

2016 "Welcome to Sherlock 1895!"
8| 1h30m| PG-13| en
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

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UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This story standing all by itself is original in a way because it shifts constantly from what happens in the modern world and what happened a century ago or more. It is nothing but the story of a wife killing her husband but the murderess knows about the stories of the old Sherlock Holmes and she is going to trap him in an old story indeed, that of the abominable bride. Sherlock shifts from one period of time to another by using some drug, cocaine or heroin is not the point, to reach a state of consciousness that makes him cross centuries. And he is going to solve the case by this plying between the present and the past. He will be induced into believed Professor Moriarty is back and he will have to go back to that special event when he "dies" the first time in the water chute somewhere in Switzerland within a confrontation with Moriarty there.This visit to the past event will give him the true answer to the question: Is Moriarty still alive? After all, why not since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are themselves still alive. Then the present crime is nothing but a simple riddle for primary school children that Sherlock Holmes solves in two seconds, maybe less.This passing from the 21st century to the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century gives the story some dynamism and makes the suspense eventful and active. It even enables the film to give the possibility to suffragettes of the older time to speak their minds against the male dominated society they live in. That's good and entertaining. But from the outside, since we are the audience hence outside the plot itself, it is quite common place to suspect the wife of a murdered husband, and the situation is so simple that there is no other suspect and no other solution. That makes the whole film an attempt to wrap a very simplistic story into a complicated set of slips, underdresses and dresses, and we, like mice in a big wheel of Swiss cheese, get lost in the lace. So this film works because we are such a good audience that we forget to remain critical and attentive. Just what Sherlock Holmes constantly says: keep awake, keep attentive, keep concentrated, don't scatter your brain power. But unluckily we do, and actually luckily for the film itself.Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
Wisty Sherlock and Watson travel back to the Victorian era and start investigation about the case of the Abominable bride.This film is a special version of the Sherlock series aired on BBC. In the Sherlock series, the setting is present age and Sherlock and Watson use high-tech equipment such as smartphones and PCs. However this film setting is the Victorian era. And this film is based on "Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife" which is one of the untold stories.I like the Sherlock Holmes series because he is very clever and his reasoning is very smart. There are some films based on Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle but I think this film is the best. Because Benedict Cumberbatch is the best actor for Sherlock and Martin Freeman is also the best actor for Watson. Originally, I like the TV series which they use high-tech equipment but I like this film too because his magnificent reasoning doesn't changed.
sitstill This franchise has had a season and a bit to falter and fail to retrieve any of the promise of the first two seasons. To answer the question; where can we go with these characters? Gatiss, Moffet and co have come up with the answer; down the same old avenues but this time in clown shoes. Every character except the title character have become ridiculous caricatures of their former selves. How many times must ubber-earnest Dr. Watson profess his man-love through misty eyes and missed breaths? How often must Mycroft deny his man-love and brotherly concern? How did anyone think giving Mycroft Holmes the Kranks treatment or giving Molly Hooper a bad case of pantomime transvestitism was anything short of a death knell for a show which is very much rudderless in high seas? The best thing that ever happened in this series was the again pantomime baddie Moriarty shutting his own gaping face hole with a bullet. How short on ideas must you be to be forced to resurrect your most gratuitous over-actor to puff out a ver thin and inconsequential mystery. (Bobby Euing in the shower post-mortem.) It is absolutely certain that this initial gush of support for this installment comes from those who were told to expect clever and don't have the wit or courage to recognize that they didn't get it. This bandwagon support will soon be superseded by laments for the promise that was once apparent, but in the hands of this team was not realizable. "Look he just survived the Reichenbach Fall..deal with it." This is not cute or an inside joke, and has shown nothing but incompetence from the writers. Anyone can write a protagonist onto a ledge, miracling them down again is the price you pay. Cheats! Looking at Gatiss's credentials based on cooky spooky comedy, and seeing now that he has nowhere further to go with these characters except up in flames, he should do himself and everybody else a favor and stop. He makes fiction for teens and his ideas are restricted by his life's work. Just as he could not convincingly resurrect Sherlock in series three he has already, with a sad admission coped out of his promise at the end of the same season to resurrect his over-camp version of Moriarty. Very obviously to all that the writers had not the first clue how to do either and whats worse weren't going to try. Don't believe the ratings..blind fan support and watching in disbelief will be shown for what they are when the dust settles or in this case the ash. A good start achieves little that a bad ending won't blot out.
Umang Jain As we know ,the Moriarty was back as shown in last episode. This episode seems a little different in beginning,where Watson met again with Sherlock. But as the play proceeds it relates to the continuation of the previous episodes shown and its a kind of ecstasy to me .It was really awesome.Late we recognize that almost all the episode was a part of experiment in great Sherlock's Mind palace, to light out the shadow of how Moriarty was bought back with a dialogue "Miss me ?"(yeah it smirked). Sherlock relates the same to a very old case of "the Abominable bride" to assess what actually had happened.....Continuing to the episodes we were watching sherlock was descended from the aircraft with a dialogue by My-croft :"London needs you. Moriarty is back" sherlock was struggling on his own to get out of his own narrative mind palace.