The Sign of Four (2001)

Thanks for the memories!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Critics,are you kidding us

Crappy film

There is no other word to describe this debacle than absolutely shocking! And yet another remake/adaptation for the why bother bin? It seems to me that remakes are getting worse all the time.Sherlock Holmes is like Shakespeare - done well it's brilliant, done badly it's as bad as it gets and this one really is as bad as it gets.It's also one of those - do the Americans really believe the British all either talk either like the Queen or Dick Van Dyke?Anyone with any appreciation of film at all would be well-advised to stay well clear of this turkey, it's a real stinker.Ignore this advice at your peril and don't say I didn't tell you so.

Watched this film today while off work sick, and even in these circumstances where you normally wouldn't expect much, this film was a stinker. Every line of dialogue is delivered in a hammy, "Gor blimey guv'nor" attempt at an English accent. The actors are Canadian, and I think one or two attempted Welsh or Scottish accents, but they are all uniformly stilted and abysmal. The female lead's accent in particular is atrocious, she sounds more Russian than anything.The villains are caricatures, the plot is poorly explained, pyrotechnics during a gunfight are as convincing as using a cap gun, and every possible cliché has been lovingly adopted by the producers. In its defence, the costumes and sets are quite good and authentic.Matt Frewer (of Max Headroom fame) plays Holmes, and is annoyingly smug and twee in his portrayal of the famous detective. He over-enunciates every line, and hams it up at every opportunity.The use of mock-Indian music during every flashback is ridiculous and contrived.Overall, this is an abysmal film. It is like English pantomime, with ridiculous villains and over-the-top attempts at acting. Best avoided.

Matt Frewer has played Sherlock Holmes in four TV movies: The Hound of the Baskevilles, The Sign of Four, The Royal Scandal, and The Whitechapel Vampire. I purchased a DVD set of all four of Frewer's Holmes films to share with friends and family. We planned to watch only one movie per evening, but we ended up watching all four in one weekend. It was just too much fun! Matt Frewer's performance as Sherlock Holmes is extremely humorous and Kenneth Welsh is the perfect straight-man for Frewer's highly eccentric Holmes. These are fun adventures for the entire family. Frewer and Welsh should make more movies as Holmes and Watson. They are a blast!

This was the worst Holmes film I have ever seen, and I see there are more of the same to come.The Main players, with the exception of Thaddeus Sholto were badly miscast, Frewer, who I quite like, and who was excellent as the Trash Cam Man in The Stand, borough a silly zany quality to Holmes that just shouldn't be there.Watson, who is about the same age as Holmes, appeared old enough to be his father.THe accents were somewhere between poor and awful, especially inspector Athenly Jones, he seemed to be a cross between English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish Jewish and Red Indian, it was awful.In all, a wasted Exercise, and down there with 'The evil beneath Loch Ness' in the really crappy film stakes.