Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

In a Sherlock Holmes mind trip he is taken back to the 1890s. In a setting very much like that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have envisaged, Holmes is a private detective, operating out of 221B Baker Street. Assisting him is Dr Watson. They are presented with a very baffling case. A woman, Emelia Ricoletti, publicly shoots and kills herself, only to appear a few hours later and kill her husband. Within the next few months other murders are committed by woman appearing to be Mrs Ricoletti. Even the police are thinking that paranormal activity is afoot. Then Sir Eustace Carmichael is threatened by such an apparition and his wife calls in Holmes and Watson.The idea of filming a Sherlock Holmes episode in the original time and setting appealed to me. It gave us a taste of what the series would have been like if it hadn't been contemporised. However, at the back my mind was the nagging suspicion that the writers had run out of ideas and that going back to the 1890s was a gimmick, and the series' jumping the shark moment.Ultimately it isn't as straightforward as an entire Sherlock episode set in the 1890s, so difficult to judge whether it was meant to be a gimmick or not. It ends up much more complex than that, and, to an extent, unnecessarily so. We have many jumps between the 1890s and the 2010s and it seems like style over substance.However, it is very entertaining. The 1890s murder story is very intriguing and is woven into the overall plot well. The modern day side is reasonably well done, though the Moriarty scenes seemed a bit self-indulgent and overblown.Overall, not brilliant but a pretty good episode nevertheless.

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.

This was purported to be a flashback to the 1890s and a more "true" depiction of Conan Doyle's Holmes. It was a dark and hopeless episode centered on Holmes overdosing on cocaine and hallucinating the entire story. Holmes was at his worst: arrogant, aloof, and depressed. Death, infidelity, murder, and quasi-homosexual obsessions and innuendo between Holmes and Moriarty made for a totally unedifying movie. It starts out dark and ends even more darkly. Never a ray of virtue, hope, or wholesome values.The writers and producers of this episode seem proud of their work. But unless you are a Goth drug addict who wants to wallow in darkness for 90 minutes, this is not for you, and definitely not for family viewing.Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, did a good job of interpreting Doyle without dragging the viewer into total darkness. The screen writers, directors, and actors of their many movies provided some sunshine at least at the end of the story.When "artists" have to resort to continual and amplified displays of gore, lust, sexual innuendo, and drug addiction, it is a sign of a lack of creativity. Modern "Hollywood" has spent years nurturing in its audience a taste for unsavory, crude, and bawdy junk-food entertainment and fills its menu with nothing else it seems.As you can tell, I am disappointed with the new "normal" in movies.

Nice try to set the atmosphere in victorian London, but overall this episodes lacks it all.....a good plot a solid story They just made a mess of it .. nice try but please forget this episode quickly ...its a shame as the standards of all the previous episodes were pretty high ( 9 out of ten i rated that...this one is a 5 and mainly for the effort and the victorian settings) Spoileralert; The fact that sherlock is in a high and actually relives the story set in victorian London doesn't it buy it for the viewer...it is just confusing and unsatisfactory In my opinion it would have been better to stick in the current time line as to go back in Victorian time and use sherlocks addiction to drugs to have him hallucinate the story of sherlock holmes in the victorian age( maybe his former life?sorry but many people doesn't believe in reincarnation)